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Ralph Ellison: The understanding of...

Ralph Ellison: The understanding of...

The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human...

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Agatha Christie: I don't think...

Agatha Christie: I don't think...

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention -- invention . . . arises directly from idleness, possibly also...

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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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E L Doctorow: Writing is a...

E L Doctorow: Writing is a...

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.

Source: In Writers at Work,...

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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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Ann Plato: [O]ne science, however,...

Ann Plato: [O]ne science, however,...

[O]ne science, however, there is, worth more than all the rest, and that is the science of living well -- which shall...

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Addison Gayle, Jr: Speaking honestly is...

Addison Gayle, Jr: Speaking honestly is...

Speaking honestly is a fundamental principle of today's black artist. He has given up the futile practice of speaking...

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bell hooks: Usually, when people...

bell hooks: Usually, when people...

Usually, when people talk about the strength of black women . . . . they ignore the reality that to be strong in the...

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John Aubrey: The parliament intended...

John Aubrey: The parliament intended...

The parliament intended to have hanged him; and he expected no less, but resolved to be hanged with the Bible under...

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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: 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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Carl Sagan: The uniqueness of...

Carl Sagan: The uniqueness of...

The uniqueness of humans has been claimed on many grounds, but most often because of our tool-making, culture,...

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Stephen Leacock: Personally, I would...

Stephen Leacock: Personally, I would...

Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia...

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Hermann Goering: The Americans cannot...

Hermann Goering: The Americans cannot...

The Americans cannot build aeroplanes. They are very good at refrigerators and razor...

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Stanislaw Lec: A man who...

Stanislaw Lec: A man who...

A man who is a genius and doesn't know it probably isn't.

Source: In 20,000 Quips...

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Robert Frost: How many apples...

Robert Frost: How many apples...

How many apples fell on Newton's head before he took the hint? Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over...

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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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Johannes Kepler: His wisdom is...

Johannes Kepler: His wisdom is...

His wisdom is infinite; that of which we are ignorant is contained in Him, as well as the little that we...

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Thomas Henry Huxley: I am too...

Thomas Henry Huxley: I am too...

I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything.

Source: Letter to...

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Barry Commoner: The first law...

Barry Commoner: The first law...

The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.

Source:...

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