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The past should...

The past should...

The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Stated clearly enough,...

Stated clearly enough,...

Stated clearly enough, an idea may cancel itself out.

Source: In Collection of...

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Reality is the...

Reality is the...

Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.

Source: In Collection of...

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Do not mistake...

Do not mistake...

Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class.

Source: In The...

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Great writers are...

Great writers are...

Great writers are the saints for the godless.

Source: Novelists in Interview (ed....

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A complete woman...

A complete woman...

A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way,...

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Tears were to...

Tears were to...

Tears were to me what glass beads are to African traders.

Source: The Naked Civil...

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Keeping up with...

Keeping up with...

Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I...

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No man is...

No man is...

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as...

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Affliction, like the...

Affliction, like the...

Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Doroth?e DeLuzy: Employment and ennui...

Doroth?e DeLuzy: Employment and ennui...

Employment and ennui are simply incompatible.

Source: In The Last Word - A Treasury...

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Mary Catherine Bateson: The family is...

Mary Catherine Bateson: The family is...

The family is changing, not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new...

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Kenneth MacKenzie Clark: The great achievement...

Kenneth MacKenzie Clark: The great achievement...

The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant...

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Carl Sagan: One of the...

Carl Sagan: One of the...

One of the greatest gifts adults can give -- to their offspring and to their society -- is to read to...

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Carl Sagan: The gears of...

Carl Sagan: The gears of...

The gears of poverty, ignorance, hopelessness and low self-esteem interact to create a kind of perpetual failure...

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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: A half truth,...

Stephen Leacock: A half truth,...

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries...

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Benjamin Jowett: Research! A mere...

Benjamin Jowett: Research! A mere...

Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest...

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Benjamin Jowett: Nowhere probably is...

Benjamin Jowett: Nowhere probably is...

Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard - both as regards the...

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Benjamin Jowett: The way to...

Benjamin Jowett: The way to...

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit of doing them.

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