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Daniel Defoe: Middle age is...

Daniel Defoe: Middle age is...

Middle age is youth without its levity,
And age without decay.


Source: In...

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E L Doctorow: We dress them...

E L Doctorow: We dress them...

We dress them [children] in the presumptions of the world. They are the bright small face of hope. They are the last...

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Boris Pasternak: The whole of...

Boris Pasternak: The whole of...

The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.

Source: In...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: One must still...

Friedrich Nietzsche: One must still...

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

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Friedrich Nietzsche: Existence really is...

Friedrich Nietzsche: Existence really is...

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

Source: The...

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Benedict Spinoza: If facts conflict...

Benedict Spinoza: If facts conflict...

If facts conflict with a theory, either the theory must be changed or the facts.

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Socrates: I cannot teach...

Socrates: I cannot teach...

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.

Source: In Webster's...

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Jiddu Krishnamurti: It is no...

Jiddu Krishnamurti: It is no...

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein: Humor is not...

Ludwig Wittgenstein: Humor is not...

Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: The great man...

Friedrich Nietzsche: The great man...

The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and...

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George Orwell: Who controls the...

George Orwell: Who controls the...

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

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Derek Bok: If you think...

Derek Bok: If you think...

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Source: In 1,911 Best Things...

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Laurence J Peter: Originality is the...

Laurence J Peter: Originality is the...

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard...

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Addison Gayle, Jr: Power comes not...

Addison Gayle, Jr: Power comes not...

Power comes not from the barrel of a gun, but from one's awareness of his or her own cultural strength and the...

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bell hooks: . . .there...

bell hooks: . . .there...

. . .there is an element of Play that is almost ritualistic in Black folk life. It serves to mediate the tensions,...

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Elie Wiesel: The books I...

Elie Wiesel: The books I...

The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples....

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Malcolm Bradbury: A conventional good...

Malcolm Bradbury: A conventional good...

A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an...

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Italo Calvino: The unconscious is...

Italo Calvino: The unconscious is...

The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a...

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Hannah Arendt: Ideas, as distinguished...

Hannah Arendt: Ideas, as distinguished...

Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented.

Source: In The...

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Margot Asquith: He [Lloyd George]...

Margot Asquith: He [Lloyd George]...

He [Lloyd George] could not see a belt without hitting below it.

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