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Maria Edgeworth: How success changes...

Maria Edgeworth: How success changes...

How success changes the opinion of men!

Source: The Will, 1800.
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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.
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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.
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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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William O Douglas: Restriction of free...

William O Douglas: Restriction of free...

Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act...

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Amos Bronson Alcott: Our notion of...

Amos Bronson Alcott: Our notion of...

Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure...

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Pearl Buck: In this unbelievable...

Pearl Buck: In this unbelievable...

In this unbelievable universe in which we live, there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines, reaching into infinity,...

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Emile Zola: If I cannot...

Emile Zola: If I cannot...

If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.

Source:...

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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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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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Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: The human mind...

Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: The human mind...

The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.

Source: In...

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Sun Tzu [Wu]: If you know...

Sun Tzu [Wu]: If you know...

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but...

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Sun Tzu [Wu]: All men can...

Sun Tzu [Wu]: All men can...

All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is...

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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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Stephen Leacock: Astronomy teaches the...

Stephen Leacock: Astronomy teaches the...

Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets.

Source: Literary...

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Linus Pauling: I like people....

Linus Pauling: I like people....

I like people. I like animals, too -- whales and quail, dinosaurs and dodos. But I like human beings especially, and I...

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Benjamin Jowett: It is most...

Benjamin Jowett: It is most...

It is most important in this world to be pushing, but it is fatal to seem so.

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Jane Harrison: To be womanly...

Jane Harrison: To be womanly...

To be womanly is one thing, and one only; it is to be sensitive to man, to be highly endowed with the sex instinct; to...

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Michel de Certeau: The only freedom...

Michel de Certeau: The only freedom...

The only freedom supposed to be left to the masses is that of grazing on the ration of simulacra the system...

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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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