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Mary Barnett Gilson Quotes: One of the baffling things about life is that the purposes of institutions may be ideal, while their administration, dependent upon the faults and weaknesses of human beings, may be bad.
         

One of the baffling things about life is that the purposes of institutions may be ideal, while their administration, dependent upon the faults and weaknesses of human beings, may be bad.


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The higher one climbs, the lonelier one is.



Until the sky is the limit [for women], as it is for men, men as well as women will suffer, because all society is affected when half of it is denied equal opportunity for full development.

Until the sky is the limit [for women], as it is for men, men as well as women will suffer, because all society is affected when half of it is denied equal opportunity for full development.



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The intelligent employer encourages challenge, questioning--not blind acceptance and "our Leader knows best" acclaim.



... a worker was seldom so much annoyed by what he got as by what he got in relation to his fellow workers.

... a worker was seldom so much annoyed by what he got as by what he got in relation to his fellow workers.



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... every experience in life enriches one's background and should teach valuable lessons.



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Men's minds must be free, and that means the minds of all, not the minds of a select few.



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To find ways of practicing democracy, not ways of orating about it, is our great problem.





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