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Mahatma Gandhi: The difference between...

Mahatma Gandhi: The difference between...

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's...

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Socrates: Employ your time...

Socrates: Employ your time...

Employ your time improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily to what others have labored...

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Socrates: There is only...

Socrates: There is only...

There is only one good -- knowledge; and only one evil -- ignorance.

Source: In The...

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Mark Twain: What is the...

Mark Twain: What is the...

What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can...

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Charles W Chesnutt: Impossibilities are merely...

Charles W Chesnutt: Impossibilities are merely...

Impossibilities are merely things of which we have not learned, or which we do not wish to...

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John Oliver Killens: Integration begins the...

John Oliver Killens: Integration begins the...

Integration begins the day after the minds of the people are desegregated.

Source:...

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Rudolph Fisher: Maybe . ....

Rudolph Fisher: Maybe . ....

Maybe . . . she ain't so possible as she looks.

Source: Common Meter.
-- Rudolph...

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Enid Bagnold: The pleasure of...

Enid Bagnold: The pleasure of...

The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age -- what's called making a hit. But the hit is much...

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Rose Tremain: Life should be...

Rose Tremain: Life should be...

Life should be embraced like a lover.

Source: In ...As One Mad With Wine, by Elyse...

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Rose Tremain: The Imagination conjures...

Rose Tremain: The Imagination conjures...

The Imagination conjures gifts; what the ungrateful, unsentimental part of the mind has to do is to unwrap them, find...

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Mary Roberts Rinehart: Life is a...

Mary Roberts Rinehart: Life is a...

Life is a little work, a little sleep, a little love and it is all over.

Source: In...

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Thomas Hardy: That man's silence...

Thomas Hardy: That man's silence...

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Source: Spinks, in Under the...

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Judith Viorst: Love is much...

Judith Viorst: Love is much...

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern...

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James Agee: He used this...

James Agee: He used this...

He used this great, sad, motionless face to suggest various related things: a one-track mind near the track's end of...

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James Agee: In every child...

James Agee: In every child...

In every child who is born, under no matter what circumstances, and no matter what parents, the potentiality of the...

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Edward Westcott: I often had...

Edward Westcott: I often had...

I often had to notice that a man'll sometimes do the foolishist thing or the meanest thing in his hull life after he's...

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George Orwell: Doublethink means the...

George Orwell: Doublethink means the...

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of...

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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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Alexander Woollcott: All the things...

Alexander Woollcott: All the things...

All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal, or fattening.

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Alexander Woollcott: At 83 Shaw's...

Alexander Woollcott: At 83 Shaw's...

At 83 Shaw's mind was perhaps not quite as good as it used to be, but it was still better than anyone...

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