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P D James: What the detective...

P D James: What the detective...

What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.

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Anthony Trollope: Three hours a...

Anthony Trollope: Three hours a...

Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.

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Sholem Asch: Personality is the...

Sholem Asch: Personality is the...

Personality is the gland of creativity.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase,...

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Italo Calvino: When politicians and...

Italo Calvino: When politicians and...

When politicians and politically minded people pay too much attention to literature, it is a bad sign -- a bad sign...

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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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Charles Wesley: O for a...

Charles Wesley: O for a...

O for a thousand tongues to sing my great Redeemer's praise!

Source: In Draper's...

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Mary McLeod Bethune: Whatever glory belongs...

Mary McLeod Bethune: Whatever glory belongs...

Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full...

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Mary McLeod Bethune: Faith is the...

Mary McLeod Bethune: Faith is the...

Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is...

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Mary McLeod Bethune: If our people...

Mary McLeod Bethune: If our people...

If our people are to fight their way out of bondage we must arm them with the sword and the shield and the buckler of...

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Mary McLeod Bethune: I never stop...

Mary McLeod Bethune: I never stop...

I never stop to plan. I take things step by step.

Source: Faith That Moved a Dump...

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Oswald Spengler: Formerly no one...

Oswald Spengler: Formerly no one...

Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is capable of it any more. Now people...

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Florence Scovel Shinn: If one is...

Florence Scovel Shinn: If one is...

If one is willing to do a thing he is afraid to do, he does not have to . . . face a situation fearlessly, and [if]...

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Mahatma Gandhi: Honest differences are...

Mahatma Gandhi: Honest differences are...

Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Alain Locke: The Younger Generation...

Alain Locke: The Younger Generation...

The Younger Generation comes, bringing its gifts. They are the first fruits of the Negro Renaissance. Youth speaks,...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: The desire to...

Friedrich Nietzsche: The desire to...

The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does...

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Carl Sagan: If you wish...

Carl Sagan: If you wish...

If you wish to make an apple pie truly from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

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Carl Sagan: We live at...

Carl Sagan: We live at...

We live at a moment when our relationships to each other, and to all other beings with whom we share this planet, are...

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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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Stephen Leacock: The classics are...

Stephen Leacock: The classics are...

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong in the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music...

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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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