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Stephen Leacock: Writing is no...

Stephen Leacock: Writing is no...

Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself -- it is the...

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Stephen Leacock: The classics are...

Stephen Leacock: The classics are...

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong in the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music...

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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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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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Christopher Lasch: The job of...

Christopher Lasch: The job of...

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.

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Nannie Burroughs: What we need...

Nannie Burroughs: What we need...

What we need are mental and spiritual giants who are aflame with a purpose . . . We're a race ready for crusade, for...

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Nannie Burroughs: When the Negro...

Nannie Burroughs: When the Negro...

When the Negro learns what manner of man he is spiritually, he will wake up all over. He will stop playing white even...

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Nannie Burroughs: We specialize in...

Nannie Burroughs: We specialize in...

We specialize in the wholly impossible.

Source: Motto of the National Training...

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Allan Bloom: Education in our...

Allan Bloom: Education in our...

Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to...

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Catharine Esther Beecher: To open avenues...

Catharine Esther Beecher: To open avenues...

To open avenues to political place and power for all classes of women would cause [the] humble labors of the family...

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Martha Carey Thomas: It is the...

Martha Carey Thomas: It is the...

It is the next step forward on the path to the sunrise, and the sun is rising over a new heaven and a new...

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Abraham Maslow: What is necessary...

Abraham Maslow: What is necessary...

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

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Carl Sagan: If you wish...

Carl Sagan: If you wish...

If you wish to make an apple pie truly from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

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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: We live at...

Carl Sagan: We live at...

We live at a moment when our relationships to each other, and to all other beings with whom we share this planet, are...

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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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Jack Kerouac: It is not...

Jack Kerouac: It is not...

It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar...

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Anthony Trollope: Three hours a...

Anthony Trollope: Three hours a...

Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.

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Daniel Defoe: Vice came in...

Daniel Defoe: Vice came in...

Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.

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P D James: What the detective...

P D James: What the detective...

What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.

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