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Hannah Arendt: Total loyalty is...

Hannah Arendt: Total loyalty is...

Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might...

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Gail Pursell Elliott: We create our...

Gail Pursell Elliott: We create our...

We create our own destiny with our choices and decisions. We can base these decisions upon the awareness of our inner...

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Thurgood Marshall: Sometimes history takes...

Thurgood Marshall: Sometimes history takes...

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

Source: c. 1983.
-- Thurgood...

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Charles Evans Hughes: The first lesson...

Charles Evans Hughes: The first lesson...

The first lesson in civics is that efficient government begins at home.

Source: In...

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Barbara De Angelis: Men aren't the...

Barbara De Angelis: Men aren't the...

Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands...

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Amos Bronson Alcott: Observation more than...

Amos Bronson Alcott: Observation more than...

Observation more than books, experience rather than persons, are the prime educators.

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Henry David Thoreau: A man cannot...

Henry David Thoreau: A man cannot...

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

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Theodore H White: I, alas, must...

Theodore H White: I, alas, must...

I, alas, must present myself somewhat ignominiously as a chef in a busy kitchen. Somewhere a novel is bubbling on a...

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Nathan Huggins: Who one was,...

Nathan Huggins: Who one was,...

Who one was, where one came from, what one was expected to be, the height of courage and character that were to be...

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Italo Calvino: The satirist is...

Italo Calvino: The satirist is...

The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is...

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Italo Calvino: It is not...

Italo Calvino: It is not...

It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.

Source: Marco Polo, in...

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Malcolm Bradbury: The English are...

Malcolm Bradbury: The English are...

The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.

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Jean Paul: Humankind's chief fault...

Jean Paul: Humankind's chief fault...

Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones.

Source: In The...

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V S Naipaul: The world is...

V S Naipaul: The world is...

The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in...

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John Aubrey: He was wont...

John Aubrey: He was wont...

He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other...

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Carl Sagan: Books tap the...

Carl Sagan: Books tap the...

Books tap the wisdom of our species -- the greatest minds, the best teachers -- from all over the world and from all...

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Jane Harrison: A young and...

Jane Harrison: A young and...

A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will . . . . It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other...

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Mark Hopkins: Language is the...

Mark Hopkins: Language is the...

Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.

Source: In The New Webster's...

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Arthur Schomburg: We need the...

Arthur Schomburg: We need the...

We need the historian and philosopher to give us with trenchant pen, the story of our forefathers, and let our soul...

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Catharine Esther Beecher: How many young...

Catharine Esther Beecher: How many young...

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity...

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