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Michel de Certeau: Political organizations have...

Michel de Certeau: Political organizations have...

Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. . ....

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Allan Bloom: The liberally educated...

Allan Bloom: The liberally educated...

The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate...

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Arthur Schomburg: The American Negro...

Arthur Schomburg: The American Negro...

The American Negro must remake his past in order to make his future . . . History must restore what slavery took...

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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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Warren Bennis: Managers are people...

Warren Bennis: Managers are people...

Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who do the right thing.

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John Oliver Killens: What a tiresome...

John Oliver Killens: What a tiresome...

What a tiresome place America would be if freedom meant we all had to think alike or be the same color or wear that...

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Joseph Heller: I don't believe...

Joseph Heller: I don't believe...

I don't believe in miracles because it's been a long time since we've had any.

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Lewis Carroll: What I tell...

Lewis Carroll: What I tell...

What I tell you three times is true.

Source: The Hunting of the Snark.
-- Lewis...

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Pearl Buck: Ah well, perhaps...

Pearl Buck: Ah well, perhaps...

Ah well, perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than...

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Agatha Christie: We owe most...

Agatha Christie: We owe most...

We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness-either enforced or...

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Agatha Christie: I've always believed...

Agatha Christie: I've always believed...

I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each...

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Hannah Arendt: There are no...

Hannah Arendt: There are no...

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.

Source: In The New...

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Thurgood Marshall: A child born...

Thurgood Marshall: A child born...

A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi . . . has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to...

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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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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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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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Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: The desire of...

Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: The desire of...

The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the...

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Francoise d'Aubigne de Maintenon: Delicacy is to...

Francoise d'Aubigne de Maintenon: Delicacy is to...

Delicacy is to love what grace is to beauty.

Source: In An Uncommon Scold, by Abby...

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Jean Toomer: One may receive...

Jean Toomer: One may receive...

One may receive the information but miss the teaching.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Etty Hillesum: Life cannot be...

Etty Hillesum: Life cannot be...

Life cannot be captured in a few axioms. And that is just what I keep trying to do. But it won't work, for life is...

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