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J G Ballard: Everything is becoming...

J G Ballard: Everything is becoming...

Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact...

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Betty Smith: Look at everything...

Betty Smith: Look at everything...

Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be...

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Emmuska Orczy: We seek him...

Emmuska Orczy: We seek him...

We seek him here, we seek him there,
Those Frenchies seek him everywhere.
Is he in heaven? - Is he in...

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Emmuska Orczy: It is only...

Emmuska Orczy: It is only...

It is only when we are very happy that we can bear to gaze merrily upon the vast and limitless expanse of water,...

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Emmuska Orczy: To love, for...

Emmuska Orczy: To love, for...

To love, for us men, is to clasp one woman with our arms, feeling that she lives and breathes just as we do, suffers...

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Shirley Hazzard: Perhaps if we...

Shirley Hazzard: Perhaps if we...

Perhaps if we lived with less physical beauty we would develop our true natures more.

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Wilfrid Sheed: One reason the...

Wilfrid Sheed: One reason the...

One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from...

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Norman Douglas: A man can...

Norman Douglas: A man can...

A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, an yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful...

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William Gilmore Simms: The true law...

William Gilmore Simms: The true law...

The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is...

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E M Forster: Happiness in the...

E M Forster: Happiness in the...

Happiness in the ordinary sense is not what one needs in life, though one is right to aim at it. The true...

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E L Konigsburg: Often the search...

E L Konigsburg: Often the search...

Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Source: The Mixed-Up Files...

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J P Donleavy: I got disappointed...

J P Donleavy: I got disappointed...

I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my...

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G K Chesterton: To say that...

G K Chesterton: To say that...

To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man.

Source: In...

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Hubert H Humphrey: I learned more...

Hubert H Humphrey: I learned more...

I learned more about economics from one South Dakota dust storm than I did in all my years at...

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Theodore Roosevelt: I am only...

Theodore Roosevelt: I am only...

I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.

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Warren Harding: Ambition is a...

Warren Harding: Ambition is a...

Ambition is a commendable attribute, without which no man succeeds. Only inconsiderate ambition...

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Warren Harding: We drew a...

Warren Harding: We drew a...

We drew a pair of deuces and filled.

Source: On hearing of his nomination for...

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Calvin Coolidge: If I had...

Calvin Coolidge: If I had...

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any...

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James Madison: If men were...

James Madison: If men were...

If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal...

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Ninon de Lenclos: Words really flattering...

Ninon de Lenclos: Words really flattering...

Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us...

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