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Robert Graves: If there's no...

Robert Graves: If there's no...

If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.

Source: speech,...

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Anita Loos: Today there are...

Anita Loos: Today there are...

Today there are no fairy tales for us to believe in, and this is possibly a reason for the universal prevalence of...

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Elizabeth Gaskell: The cloud never...

Elizabeth Gaskell: The cloud never...

The cloud never comes in the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.

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Carson McCullers: I live with...

Carson McCullers: I live with...

I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.

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Stephen King: Nobody was really...

Stephen King: Nobody was really...

Nobody was really surprised when it happened, not really, not on the subconscious level where savage things...

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Hosea Ballou: Pretension almost always...

Hosea Ballou: Pretension almost always...

Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself.

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Henry Ward Beecher: In the ordinary...

Henry Ward Beecher: In the ordinary...

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it...

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Henry Ward Beecher: It is defeat...

Henry Ward Beecher: It is defeat...

It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men...

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Epicurus: It is possible...

Epicurus: It is possible...

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city...

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Henri Bergson: Think like a...

Henri Bergson: Think like a...

Think like a man of action and act like a man of thought.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Maimonides: Anticipate charity by...

Maimonides: Anticipate charity by...

Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.

Source: F
-- Maimonides, (Mar 30...

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Albert Camus: I don't want...

Albert Camus: I don't want...

I don't want to be a genius - I have enough problems just trying to be a man.

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Mencius: Kindly words do...

Mencius: Kindly words do...

Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.

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Democritus: Nothing exists except...

Democritus: Nothing exists except...

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space: everything else is opinion.

Source: In...

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Antisthenes: It is better...

Antisthenes: It is better...

It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead -- these the...

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Karl Popper: Science may be...

Karl Popper: Science may be...

Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.

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Socrates: When desire, having...

Socrates: When desire, having...

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the...

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Socrates: Living well and...

Socrates: Living well and...

Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.

Source: Crito,...

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Ludwig Wittgenstein: In order to...

Ludwig Wittgenstein: In order to...

In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we...

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Raoul Vaneigem: People without imagination...

Raoul Vaneigem: People without imagination...

People without imagination are beginning to tire of the importance attached to comfort, to culture, to leisure, to all...

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