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Douglas Adams: Flying is learning...

Douglas Adams: Flying is learning...

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Source: In The...

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Douglas Adams: So long, and...

Douglas Adams: So long, and...

So long, and thanks for all the fish.

Source: The dolphins' farewell message to...

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Jack Kerouac: We're really all...

Jack Kerouac: We're really all...

We're really all of us bottomly broke. I haven't had time to work in weeks.

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P G Wodehouse: I know I...

P G Wodehouse: I know I...

I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed I...

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Jean Paul: No author can...

Jean Paul: No author can...

No author can be as moral as his work and no preacher as pious as his sermons.

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Madeleine L'Engle: I love my...

Madeleine L'Engle: I love my...

I love my mother, not as a prisoner of atherosclerosis, but as a person; and I must love her enough to accept her as...

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Madeleine L'Engle: She seems to...

Madeleine L'Engle: She seems to...

She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in...

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Lois McMaster Bujold: All virtues come...

Lois McMaster Bujold: All virtues come...

All virtues come down to courage, at the sharp end of the sword. But courage must be tempered by prudence. Courage...

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Doug Horton: It's not a...

Doug Horton: It's not a...

It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

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Mahatma Gandhi: I think it...

Mahatma Gandhi: I think it...

I think it would be a good idea.

Source: On being asked for his view on Western...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Always do what...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Always do what...

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Source: Wriston's 'Risk and Other Four-Letter...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: We would not...

Friedrich Nietzsche: We would not...

We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that. But perhaps...

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Henry Ward Beecher: The real man...

Henry Ward Beecher: The real man...

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Everything runs to...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Everything runs to...

Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed.

Source: In...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: If a man...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: If a man...

If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney...

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Thomas Carlyle: The cut of...

Thomas Carlyle: The cut of...

The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and...

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Thomas Carlyle: The outer passes...

Thomas Carlyle: The outer passes...

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

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Thomas Carlyle: To reform a...

Thomas Carlyle: To reform a...

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid,...

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Thomas Carlyle: Weak eyes are...

Thomas Carlyle: Weak eyes are...

Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Thomas Carlyle: There is only...

Thomas Carlyle: There is only...

There is only one post fit for you, and that is the office of perpetual president of the Heaven and Hell Amalgamation...

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