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Booth Tarkington: Mystics always hope...

Booth Tarkington: Mystics always hope...

Mystics always hope that science will some day overtake them.

Source: Looking...

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Lillian Smith: When you stop...

Lillian Smith: When you stop...

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to...

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Gloria Naylor: Time's passage through...

Gloria Naylor: Time's passage through...

Time's passage through the memory is like molten glass that can be opaque or crystallize at any given moment at will:...

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Andre Gide: Art is a...

Andre Gide: Art is a...

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the...

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Ruth Westheimer: Don't criticize in...

Ruth Westheimer: Don't criticize in...

Don't criticize in the sack. Discuss constructively later.

Source: In Words of...

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Abraham Maslow: A first-rate soup...

Abraham Maslow: A first-rate soup...

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second rate painting.

Source: In Great...

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Christiaan Barnard: It is infinitely...

Christiaan Barnard: It is infinitely...

It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it to be devoured by worms.

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Robert Walpole: All those men...

Robert Walpole: All those men...

All those men have their price.

Source: In Memoirs of Sir Robert Walpole, by W....

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William Temple: The most influential...

William Temple: The most influential...

The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.

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William Temple: The best rules...

William Temple: The best rules...

The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in...

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Patrick Henry: I like dreams...

Patrick Henry: I like dreams...

I like dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Source: In The...

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Edward Everett: A great character,...

Edward Everett: A great character,...

A great character, founded on the living rock of principle, is a dispensation of Providence, designed to have not...

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The taste for...

The taste for...

The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist...

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He has a...

He has a...

He has a capacity for enjoyment so vast that he gives away great chunks to those about him, and never even misses...

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I take a...

I take a...

I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: Checkout Time is 18...

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The New is...

The New is...

The New is not a fashion, it is a value.

Source: The Pleasure of the Text, Modern ...

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Before marriage, a...

Before marriage, a...

Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down...

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It takes one...

It takes one...

It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son --and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of...

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Marriage: A souvenir...

Marriage: A souvenir...

Marriage: A souvenir of love.

Source: In An Uncommon Scold, by Abby Adams,...

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For it is...

For it is...

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom...

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