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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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Sun Tzu [Wu]: Hence that general...

Sun Tzu [Wu]: Hence that general...

Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense...

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Nathan Huggins: The vogue of...

Nathan Huggins: The vogue of...

The vogue of the New Negro . . . had all of the character of a public relations promotion. The Negro had to be sold to...

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Jean Genet: What we need...

Jean Genet: What we need...

What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.

Source: The Blacks, 1959.
--...

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Agatha Christie: I like living....

Agatha Christie: I like living....

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I...

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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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Van Wyck Brooks: No one is...

Van Wyck Brooks: No one is...

No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or...

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Thurgood Marshall: Sometimes history takes...

Thurgood Marshall: Sometimes history takes...

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

Source: c. 1983.
-- Thurgood...

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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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Lisa Alther: . . ....

Lisa Alther: . . ....

. . . inspiration never arrived when you were searching for it.

Source: In Words of...

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Anzia Yezierska: When I only...

Anzia Yezierska: When I only...

When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high...

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Andre Malraux: The crucial discovery...

Andre Malraux: The crucial discovery...

The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a...

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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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The fifties --...

The fifties --...

The fifties -- they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief...

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The fact that...

The fact that...

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another s, smile at...

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Psychoanalysts seem to...

Psychoanalysts seem to...

Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application.

Source: In...

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ABSTAINER, n. A...

ABSTAINER, n. A...

ABSTAINER, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. A total abstainer is one who...

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Sports do not...

Sports do not...

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

Source: In Sports in America, by...

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Saying yes to...

Saying yes to...

Saying yes to yourself means acknowledging what you have that's good and working on the things that...

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Until you walk...

Until you walk...

Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell.

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