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Annie Dillard: I woke at...

Annie Dillard: I woke at...

I woke at intervals until . . . the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often awake than...

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Annie Dillard: The dedicated life...

Annie Dillard: The dedicated life...

The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.

Source:...

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: The longest day...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: The longest day...

The longest day must have its close -- the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of...

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Jerome K Jerome: It is so...

Jerome K Jerome: It is so...

It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being...

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Ralph Ellison: When I discover...

Ralph Ellison: When I discover...

When I discover who I am, I'll be free.

Source: In Famous Black Quotations, ed....

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Ralph Ellison: There must be...

Ralph Ellison: There must be...

There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the...

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Alvin Toffler: One of the...

Alvin Toffler: One of the...

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new...

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Alvin Toffler: Most managers were...

Alvin Toffler: Most managers were...

Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise -- bureaucrats.

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Alvin Toffler: Change is not...

Alvin Toffler: Change is not...

Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.

Source: Future Shock,...

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Agatha Christie: An archaeologist is...

Agatha Christie: An archaeologist is...

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in...

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Mark Twain: What, sir, would...

Mark Twain: What, sir, would...

What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, mighty scarce. Then let us...

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Arthur Conan Doyle: Our ideas must...

Arthur Conan Doyle: Our ideas must...

Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.

Source:...

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Erica Jong: Bigamy is having...

Erica Jong: Bigamy is having...

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Source: In Webster's...

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George Moore: To be aristocratic...

George Moore: To be aristocratic...

To be aristocratic in Art one must avoid polite society

Source: Enemies of Promise,...

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George Moore: The difficulty in...

George Moore: The difficulty in...

The difficulty in life is the choice.

Source: The Bending of the Bough, [1900], act...

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Edgar Watson Howe: A modest man...

Edgar Watson Howe: A modest man...

A modest man is usually admired -- if people ever hear of him.

Source: In Webster's...

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Edgar Watson Howe: Most people put...

Edgar Watson Howe: Most people put...

Most people put off till tomorrow that which they should have done yesterday.

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G K Chesterton: Without education, we...

G K Chesterton: Without education, we...

Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people...

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G K Chesterton: The true object...

G K Chesterton: The true object...

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

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G K Chesterton: I rose politely...

G K Chesterton: I rose politely...

I rose politely in the club
And said, `I feel a little bored;
Will someone take me to a...

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