Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.

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I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential.

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When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.

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Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.

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Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.

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The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl.

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The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says 'It's a girl.'

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At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.

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You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

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Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission.

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