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Allan Bloom: Education in our...

Allan Bloom: Education in our...

Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to...

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Carl Sagan: Except for children...

Carl Sagan: Except for children...

Except for children (who don't know enough not to ask the important questions), few of us spendtime wondering why...

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Stephen Leacock: Humor may be...

Stephen Leacock: Humor may be...

Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression...

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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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Aldous Huxley: It is far...

Aldous Huxley: It is far...

It is far easier to write ten passable effective sonnets, good enough to take in the not too inquiring critic, than...

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Anthony Trollope: Life is so...

Anthony Trollope: Life is so...

Life is so unlike theory.

Source: Phineas Finn.
-- Anthony Trollope, (Apr 24...

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Daniel Defoe: He bade me...

Daniel Defoe: He bade me...

He bade me observe it, and I should always find, that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower...

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Pearl Buck: When hope is...

Pearl Buck: When hope is...

When hope is taken away from the people moral degeneration follows swiftly after.

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E L Doctorow: Writing is an...

E L Doctorow: Writing is an...

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

Source: In...

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E L Doctorow: Writing is like...

E L Doctorow: Writing is like...

Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole...

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Rose Elizabeth Bird: The judiciary must...

Rose Elizabeth Bird: The judiciary must...

The judiciary must not take on the coloration of whatever may be popular at the moment. [W]e are guardian of rights,...

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Etty Hillesum: Life cannot be...

Etty Hillesum: Life cannot be...

Life cannot be captured in a few axioms. And that is just what I keep trying to do. But it won't work, for life is...

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Sun Tzu [Wu]: Supreme excellence consists...

Sun Tzu [Wu]: Supreme excellence consists...

Supreme excellence consists in breaking an enemy's resistance without fighting.

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Friedrich Nietzsche: Many a man...

Friedrich Nietzsche: Many a man...

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good.

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Vincent Van Gogh: It is not...

Vincent Van Gogh: It is not...

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to. . . . The feeling for the...

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James McNeill Whistler: To say to...

James McNeill Whistler: To say to...

To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the...

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M C Escher: At first I...

M C Escher: At first I...

At first I had no idea at all of the possibility of systematically building up my figures. I did not know ... this was...

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Philip Johnson: All architecture is...

Philip Johnson: All architecture is...

All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or...

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Beryl Markham: You can live...

Beryl Markham: You can live...

You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about...

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Thomas Henry Huxley: In scientific work,...

Thomas Henry Huxley: In scientific work,...

In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.

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