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Gail Pursell Elliott: Life?s lessons may...

Gail Pursell Elliott: Life?s lessons may...

Life?s lessons may be viewed as difficulties or challenges to be overcome, but in reality they are an exercise in fine...

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Thurgood Marshall: A child born...

Thurgood Marshall: A child born...

A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi . . . has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to...

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Barbara De Angelis: If you aren't...

Barbara De Angelis: If you aren't...

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and...

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Anthony Trollope: Life is so...

Anthony Trollope: Life is so...

Life is so unlike theory.

Source: Phineas Finn.
-- Anthony Trollope, (Apr 24...

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Ariel Durant: Only a fool...

Ariel Durant: Only a fool...

Only a fool would try to compress a hundred centuries into a hundred pages of hazardous conclusions. We...

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Van Wyck Brooks: No one is...

Van Wyck Brooks: No one is...

No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or...

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Pearl Buck: All things are...

Pearl Buck: All things are...

All things are possible until they are proved impossible -- and even the impossible may only be so, as of...

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Kenneth MacKenzie Clark: Of all these...

Kenneth MacKenzie Clark: Of all these...

Of all these questions the one he asks most insistently is about man. How does he walk? How does the heart pump blood?...

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Carl Sagan: Except for children...

Carl Sagan: Except for children...

Except for children (who don't know enough not to ask the important questions), few of us spendtime wondering why...

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Stephen Leacock: I am a...

Stephen Leacock: I am a...

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

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Stephen Leacock: Astronomy teaches the...

Stephen Leacock: Astronomy teaches the...

Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets.

Source: Literary...

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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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Benjamin Jowett: It is most...

Benjamin Jowett: It is most...

It is most important in this world to be pushing, but it is fatal to seem so.

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Michel de Certeau: The only freedom...

Michel de Certeau: The only freedom...

The only freedom supposed to be left to the masses is that of grazing on the ration of simulacra the system...

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Kingman Brewster, Jr: I'm very curious...

Kingman Brewster, Jr: I'm very curious...

I'm very curious to know what the hell they're saying on the phone, but I'd be more worried if they weren't...

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Warren Bennis: Managers are people...

Warren Bennis: Managers are people...

Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who do the right thing.

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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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Ralph Ellison: The antidote to...

Ralph Ellison: The antidote to...

The antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony, that capacity to discover and systematize ideas. Or, as...

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Francois Rabelais: What cannot be...

Francois Rabelais: What cannot be...

What cannot be cured must be endured.

Source: Works.
-- Francois Rabelais, ( ...

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Thomas Mann: Opinions cannot survive...

Thomas Mann: Opinions cannot survive...

Opinions cannot survive if no one has a chance to fight for them.

Source: The Magic...

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