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Jean Anouilh: Talent is like...

Jean Anouilh: Talent is like...

Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, you have to write.

Source: The New York...

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Jean Anouilh: Everything ends this...

Jean Anouilh: Everything ends this...

Everything ends this way in France. Weddings, christenings, duels, burials, swindlings, affairs of state -- everything...

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Jean Anouilh: Nothing is irreparable...

Jean Anouilh: Nothing is irreparable...

Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Source: Warwick, in The Lark, pt. 1.
-- Jean...

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Aeschylus: Memory is the...

Aeschylus: Memory is the...

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Source: Prometheus Bound.
-- Aeschylus, ( ...

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Andrea Dworkin: In this society,...

Andrea Dworkin: In this society,...

In this society, the norm of masculinity is phallic aggression. Male sexuality is, by definition, intensely and...

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Anthony J D'Angelo: You don't have...

Anthony J D'Angelo: You don't have...

You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader.

Source: The College Blue...

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Martin Luther King, Jr: He who passively...

Martin Luther King, Jr: He who passively...

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.

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Martin Luther King, Jr: Nonviolence is a...

Martin Luther King, Jr: Nonviolence is a...

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. . . . which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is...

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Martin Luther King, Jr: Property is intended...

Martin Luther King, Jr: Property is intended...

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Two man talk...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Two man talk...

Two man talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching...

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Francis Bacon: Dreams and predictions...

Francis Bacon: Dreams and predictions...

Dreams and predictions ought to serve but for winter talk by the fireside.

Source:...

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Francis Bacon: Virtue is like...

Francis Bacon: Virtue is like...

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

Source: Essays, 43, `Of Beauty'
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Francis Bacon: Be so true...

Francis Bacon: Be so true...

Be so true to thyself, as thou be not false to others.

Source: Essays, 'Of Wisdom...

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Francis Bacon: The desire for...

Francis Bacon: The desire for...

The desire for power in excess caused angels to fall; the desire for knowledge in excess caused man to fall; but in...

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Francis Bacon: That things are...

Francis Bacon: That things are...

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is...

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Aristotle: The law is...

Aristotle: The law is...

The law is reason free from passion.

Source: Politics.
-- Aristotle, ( ...

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Aristotle: The generality of...

Aristotle: The generality of...

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather...

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Aristotle: All virtue is...

Aristotle: All virtue is...

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

Source: Nicomachean Ethics.
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Aristotle: Suffering becomes beautiful...

Aristotle: Suffering becomes beautiful...

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but...

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Aristotle: The moral virtues,...

Aristotle: The moral virtues,...

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the...

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