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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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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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Omar Bradley: Never use intuition....

Omar Bradley: Never use intuition....

Never use intuition.

Source:
-- Omar Bradley, (Feb 12 1893-1981), US army...

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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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Siegfried Sassoon: His most rational...

Siegfried Sassoon: His most rational...

His most rational response to my attempts at drawing him out about literature and art was 'I adore italics, don't...

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Naomi Weisstein: Except for their...

Naomi Weisstein: Except for their...

Except for their genitals, I don't know what immutable differences exist between men and women. [U]ntil social...

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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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Rose Elizabeth Bird: The judiciary must...

Rose Elizabeth Bird: The judiciary must...

The judiciary must not take on the coloration of whatever may be popular at the moment. [W]e are guardian of rights,...

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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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Ralph Ellison: I'm not a...

Ralph Ellison: I'm not a...

I'm not a separatist. The imagination is integrative. That's how you make the new -- by putting something else with...

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Oswald Spengler: Formerly no one...

Oswald Spengler: Formerly no one...

Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is capable of it any more. Now people...

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Isaac Singer: Every creator painfully...

Isaac Singer: Every creator painfully...

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate...

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Florence Scovel Shinn: If one is...

Florence Scovel Shinn: If one is...

If one is willing to do a thing he is afraid to do, he does not have to . . . face a situation fearlessly, and [if]...

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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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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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Derek Bok: The oldest of...

Derek Bok: The oldest of...

The oldest of the arts and the youngest of the professions.

Source: Conferring the...

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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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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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Michel de Certeau: Political organizations have...

Michel de Certeau: Political organizations have...

Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. . ....

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