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The fact that...

The fact that...

The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish human...

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If you improve...

If you improve...

If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or...

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There is nothing...

There is nothing...

There is nothing in nature that can't be taken as a sign of both morality and...

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Benjamin Jowett: The way to...

Benjamin Jowett: The way to...

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit of doing them.

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William A Ward: Curiosity is the...

William A Ward: Curiosity is the...

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.

Source: In The San Diego...

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Derek Bok: The oldest of...

Derek Bok: The oldest of...

The oldest of the arts and the youngest of the professions.

Source: Conferring the...

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Emily James Putnam: In contemporary society...

Emily James Putnam: In contemporary society...

In contemporary society [the typical lady] is an archaism, and can't hardly understand herself unless she knows her...

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Mary Catherine Bateson: Human beings do...

Mary Catherine Bateson: Human beings do...

Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.

Source: With a Daughter's Eye,...

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Mary Catherine Bateson: The Christian tradition...

Mary Catherine Bateson: The Christian tradition...

The Christian tradition was passed on to me as a great rich mixture, a bouillabaisse of human imagination and wonder...

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Kenneth MacKenzie Clark: The great achievement...

Kenneth MacKenzie Clark: The great achievement...

The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant...

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Stephen Leacock: If every day...

Stephen Leacock: If every day...

If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little fault to find with...

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Alain Locke: . . ....

Alain Locke: . . ....

. . . not by way of the forced and worn formula of Romaticism, but throught the closeness of an imagination that has...

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Isaac Singer: Every creator painfully...

Isaac Singer: Every creator painfully...

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate...

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Georg Hegel: We do not...

Georg Hegel: We do not...

We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to...

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Georg Hegel: It is a...

Georg Hegel: It is a...

It is a matter of perfect indifference where a thing originated; the only question is: Is it true in and for...

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Epictetus: It is the...

Epictetus: It is the...

It is the sign of a dull mind to dwell upon the cares of the body, to prolong exercise, eating and drinking, and other...

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Hannah Arendt: Storytelling reveals meaning...

Hannah Arendt: Storytelling reveals meaning...

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

Source:...

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Jacques Barzun: The piano is...

Jacques Barzun: The piano is...

The piano is the social instrument par excellence. . . . drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the...

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Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: Sow good services:...

Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: Sow good services:...

Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: A religious life...

Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: A religious life...

A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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