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Linus Pauling: I like people....

Linus Pauling: I like people....

I like people. I like animals, too -- whales and quail, dinosaurs and dodos. But I like human beings especially, and I...

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Christopher Lasch: A society that...

Christopher Lasch: A society that...

A society that has made nostalgia a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion...

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Christopher Lasch: The job of...

Christopher Lasch: The job of...

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.

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Freda Adler: If one would...

Freda Adler: If one would...

If one would discern the centers of dominance in any society, one need only look to its definitions of virtue and vice...

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Kingman Brewster, Jr: Universities should be...

Kingman Brewster, Jr: Universities should be...

Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please...

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bell hooks: The academy is...

bell hooks: The academy is...

The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created.

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Madame Chiang Kai-Shek: Of all the...

Madame Chiang Kai-Shek: Of all the...

Of all the inventions that have helped to unify China perhaps the airplane is the most outstanding. Its ability to...

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Doroth?e DeLuzy: Employment and ennui...

Doroth?e DeLuzy: Employment and ennui...

Employment and ennui are simply incompatible.

Source: In The Last Word - A Treasury...

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Carl Sagan: The uniqueness of...

Carl Sagan: The uniqueness of...

The uniqueness of humans has been claimed on many grounds, but most often because of our tool-making, culture,...

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Stephen Leacock: Electricity is of...

Stephen Leacock: Electricity is of...

Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more...

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Stephen Leacock: I am a...

Stephen Leacock: I am a...

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

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Stephen Leacock: It takes a...

Stephen Leacock: It takes a...

It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a...

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Maria Edgeworth: When one illusion...

Maria Edgeworth: When one illusion...

When one illusion vanishes, another shall appear, and, still leading me forward towards an horizon that retreats as I...

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Lois McMaster Bujold: What you are...

Lois McMaster Bujold: What you are...

What you are is a question only you can answer.

Source: In Collection of 10,000...

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I think the...

I think the...

I think the inner person is the most important. . . . I would like to see an invention that keeps the mind alert. ...

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Memorial Service: Farewell...

Memorial Service: Farewell...

Memorial Service: Farewell party for someone who already left.

Source: In 1,911...

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You can say...

You can say...

You can say any fool thing to a dog, and the dog will give you this look that says, `My God, you're RIGHT! I NEVER...

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The old system...

The old system...

The old system of having a baby was much better than the new system, the old system being characterized by the fact...

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Susan Faludi: The feminine woman...

Susan Faludi: The feminine woman...

The feminine woman is forever static and childlike. She is like the ballerina in an old-fashioned music box, her...

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Ted Williams: When I first...

Ted Williams: When I first...

When I first looked at Yaz [Carl Yastrezemski] as a rooker, it was obvious that he had so much talent that I told him...

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