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Sandra Day O'Connor: Despite the encouraging...

Sandra Day O'Connor: Despite the encouraging...

Despite the encouraging and wonderful gains and the changes for women which have occurred in my lifetime, there is...

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Jacques Barzun: The piano is...

Jacques Barzun: The piano is...

The piano is the social instrument par excellence. . . . drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the...

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Stephen Leacock: A 'Grand Old...

Stephen Leacock: A 'Grand Old...

A 'Grand Old Man'. That means on our continent any one with snow white hair who has kept out of jail till...

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Benjamin Jowett: If you don't...

Benjamin Jowett: If you don't...

If you don't find a God by five o'clock this afternoon you must leave the college.

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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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Allan Bloom: Fathers and mothers...

Allan Bloom: Fathers and mothers...

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to...

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Martha Carey Thomas: My one aim...

Martha Carey Thomas: My one aim...

My one aim and concentrated purpose shall be and is to show that women can learn, can reason, can compete with men in...

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John Erskine: There's a difference...

John Erskine: There's a difference...

There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices...

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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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Kenneth MacKenzie Clark: True perfection is...

Kenneth MacKenzie Clark: True perfection is...

True perfection is achieved only by those who are prepared to destroy it. It is a by-product of...

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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus: The happiness of...

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus: The happiness of...

The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.

Source: In The...

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Joseph Goebbels: If the day...

Joseph Goebbels: If the day...

If the day should ever come when we [the Nazis] must go, if some day we are compelled to leave the scene of history,...

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Richard Buckminster Fuller: Gold and silver...

Richard Buckminster Fuller: Gold and silver...

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

Source: In

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Lewis Thomas: The act of...

Lewis Thomas: The act of...

The act of smelling something, anything, is remarkably like the act of thinking. Immediately at the moment of...

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Saul Steinberg: People who see...

Saul Steinberg: People who see...

People who see a drawing in the New Yorker will think automatically that it's funny because it is a cartoon. If they...

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Louis Aragon: The whole fauna...

Louis Aragon: The whole fauna...

The whole fauna of human fantasies, their marine vegetation, drifts and luxuriates in the dimly lit zones of human...

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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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Lynda Barry: Love is an...

Lynda Barry: Love is an...

Love is an exploding cigar which we willingly smoke.

Source: Big Ideas, 1983.
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Walter Gropius: If your contribution...

Walter Gropius: If your contribution...

If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your...

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Richard Buckminster Fuller: You have to...

Richard Buckminster Fuller: You have to...

You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually...

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