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Agatha Christie: The popular idea...

Agatha Christie: The popular idea...

The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of...

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Franz Kafka: The dream reveals...

Franz Kafka: The dream reveals...

The dream reveals the reality which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life -- the terror of...

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Italo Calvino: The struggle of...

Italo Calvino: The struggle of...

The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the...

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Henry Kissinger: I am being...

Henry Kissinger: I am being...

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

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Benjamin Jowett: It is most...

Benjamin Jowett: It is most...

It is most important in this world to be pushing, but it is fatal to seem so.

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Jane Harrison: Marriage, for a...

Jane Harrison: Marriage, for a...

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and...

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Jane Harrison: To be womanly...

Jane Harrison: To be womanly...

To be womanly is one thing, and one only; it is to be sensitive to man, to be highly endowed with the sex instinct; to...

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Mark Hopkins: Christianity is the...

Mark Hopkins: Christianity is the...

Christianity is the greatest civilizing, moulding, uplifting power on this globe.

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Mark Hopkins: Our prayer and...

Mark Hopkins: Our prayer and...

Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other...

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Freda Adler: It is not...

Freda Adler: It is not...

It is not only by the questions we have answered that progress may be measured, but also by those we are still...

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Kingman Brewster, Jr: I'm very curious...

Kingman Brewster, Jr: I'm very curious...

I'm very curious to know what the hell they're saying on the phone, but I'd be more worried if they weren't...

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Wilhelm Stekel: The mark of...

Wilhelm Stekel: The mark of...

The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he...

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Carl Gustav Jung: The creative mind...

Carl Gustav Jung: The creative mind...

The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Carl Sagan: All inquires carry...

Carl Sagan: All inquires carry...

All inquires carry with them some element of risk. There is no guarantee that the universe will conform to our...

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Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus: When a man...

Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus: When a man...

When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he...

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Sean O'Casey: You cannot put...

Sean O'Casey: You cannot put...

You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea; you cannot put an idea up against the barrack-square wall and riddle...

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George V: How is the...

George V: How is the...

How is the Empire?

Source: In The Times, 21 Jan 1936
-- George V, (Jun 3...

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Andrew Wyeth: When you show...

Andrew Wyeth: When you show...

When you show it to someone, if they like it, you're stopped, and if they dislike it you're stopped either...

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David Ogilvy: The best ideas...

David Ogilvy: The best ideas...

The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.

Source: In...

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Lynda Barry: Love is an...

Lynda Barry: Love is an...

Love is an exploding cigar which we willingly smoke.

Source: Big Ideas, 1983.
--...

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