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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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Freda Adler: The type of...

Freda Adler: The type of...

The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its...

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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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Henry David Thoreau: The words which...

Henry David Thoreau: The words which...

The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense...

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Lewis Carroll: Everything's got a...

Lewis Carroll: Everything's got a...

Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.

Source: Alice's Adventures in...

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Sarah Orne Jewett: In the life...

Sarah Orne Jewett: In the life...

In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or...

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Anthony Trollope: And above all...

Anthony Trollope: And above all...

And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is...

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Ariel Durant: One of the...

Ariel Durant: One of the...

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to...

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Ariel Durant: Only a fool...

Ariel Durant: Only a fool...

Only a fool would try to compress a hundred centuries into a hundred pages of hazardous conclusions. We...

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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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Byron R White: The 1st Amendment...

Byron R White: The 1st Amendment...

The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend.

Source:...

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Etty Hillesum: Every day I...

Etty Hillesum: Every day I...

Every day I shall put my papers in order and every day I shall say farewell. And the real farewell, when it comes,...

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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: The true way...

Francoise d'Aubigne de Maintenon: The true way...

The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.

Source: In...

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Margaret Walker: The Word of...

Margaret Walker: The Word of...

The Word of fire burns today
On the lips of our prophets in an evil age.


Source:...

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Omar Bradley: I am convinced...

Omar Bradley: I am convinced...

I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit, and...

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Sun Tzu [Wu]: O divine art...

Sun Tzu [Wu]: O divine art...

O divine art of sublety and secrecy! Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible and hence we can...

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Pearl Buck: Self-expression must pass...

Pearl Buck: Self-expression must pass...

Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.

Source: The...

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Gertrude Stein: The unreal is...

Gertrude Stein: The unreal is...

The unreal is natural, so natural that it makes of unreality the most natural of anything natural. That is what...

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