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Italo Calvino: What Romantic terminology...

Italo Calvino: What Romantic terminology...

What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road...

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Jane Austen: One cannot have...

Jane Austen: One cannot have...

One cannot have too large a party.

Source: 'Emma'
-- Jane Austen, (Dec 16...

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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: Personally, I would...

Stephen Leacock: Personally, I would...

Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia...

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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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Arthur Schomburg: The modern school...

Arthur Schomburg: The modern school...

The modern school without systematic lectures turns out many graduates who lack retention. No sooner has the sound of...

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Gilbert Highet: The aim of...

Gilbert Highet: The aim of...

The aim of those who try to control thought is always the same. They find one single explanation of the world, one...

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Ilka Chase: Among famous traitors...

Ilka Chase: Among famous traitors...

Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.

Source: The Varied...

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Stanislaw Lec: In a war...

Stanislaw Lec: In a war...

In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Bertolt Brecht: Don't be afraid...

Bertolt Brecht: Don't be afraid...

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Source: Pelagea Vlasova, in...

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James McNeill Whistler: To say of...

James McNeill Whistler: To say of...

To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labour, is to say that it is...

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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek: [W]henever I found...

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek: [W]henever I found...

[W]henever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all...

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Lewis Thomas: The capacity to...

Lewis Thomas: The capacity to...

The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be...

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Christopher Fry: Try thinking of...

Christopher Fry: Try thinking of...

Try thinking of love, or something.
Amor vincit insomnia.


Source: A Sleep of...

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A major problem...

A major problem...

A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our...

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When producers want...

When producers want...

When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to...

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Happiness is a...

Happiness is a...

Happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you're lucky.

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In art, there...

In art, there...

In art, there are tears that do often lie too deep for thoughts.

Source: In...

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Everyone should fail...

Everyone should fail...

Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Source:...

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The path of...

The path of...

The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.

Source: In...

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