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Olive Schreiner Quotes: We bear the world and we make it.... There was never a great man who had not a great mother-it is hardly an exaggeration.
         

We bear the world and we make it.... There was never a great man who had not a great mother-it is hardly an exaggeration.


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I think if I were dying and I heard of an act of injustice, it would start me up to a moment's life again.

I think if I were dying and I heard of an act of injustice, it would start me up to a moment's life again.



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There was never a great man who had not a great mother.



My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.



Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.

Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.



Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.

Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.



If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?

If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?



Love, smoke and a cough cannot long be hid!

Love, smoke and a cough cannot long be hid!



The secret of success is concentration ... Taste everything a little, look at everything a little; but live for one thing.

The secret of success is concentration ... Taste everything a little, look at everything a little; but live for one thing.



Ones real deathless wealth is all the beautiful souls one has seen and spiritually touched.

Ones real deathless wealth is all the beautiful souls one has seen and spiritually touched.



Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down.

Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down.





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Osama Bin Laden is not going to come here and destroy America. Our education system is doing that just fine.



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I don't know how women stop being friends with other women.



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Donald Trump is breaking every rule and getting away with it. He's breaking every rule and getting more popular.



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A PHD is not the end of education. Education exists even among the bees who feed their queen only with the purest.



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This page presents the quote "We bear the world and we make it.... There was never a great man who had not a great mother-it is hardly an exaggeration.". Author of this quote is Olive Schreiner. This quote is about self, knowledge,.