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Michel de Certeau: The media transforms...

Michel de Certeau: The media transforms...

The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks...

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bell hooks: Secrets find a...

bell hooks: Secrets find a...

Secrets find a way out in sleep . . . It is the place where there is no pretense.

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Wilkie Collins: I am not...

Wilkie Collins: I am not...

I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.

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Richard Bach: To fly as...

Richard Bach: To fly as...

To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is. He said, you must begin by knowing that you have already...

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Guillaume Apollinaire: Memories are hunting...

Guillaume Apollinaire: Memories are hunting...

Memories are hunting horns whose sound dies on the wind.

Source: Cors de...

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Van Wyck Brooks: The creative impulses...

Van Wyck Brooks: The creative impulses...

The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.

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Van Wyck Brooks: Those of our...

Van Wyck Brooks: Those of our...

Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social...

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Charles Kingsley: We act as...

Charles Kingsley: We act as...

We act as though comfort luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is...

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Pearl Buck: Sometimes I would...

Pearl Buck: Sometimes I would...

Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than take away a...

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Jacob Bronowski: The world is...

Jacob Bronowski: The world is...

The world is made of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower...

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Ralph Ellison: I am invisible,...

Ralph Ellison: I am invisible,...

I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

Source: The...

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Margot Asquith: It is easier...

Margot Asquith: It is easier...

It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.

Source: More or Less...

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Margot Asquith: Lord Birkenhead is...

Margot Asquith: Lord Birkenhead is...

Lord Birkenhead is very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head.

Source:...

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Harry A Blackmun: I hope you...

Harry A Blackmun: I hope you...

I hope you will be yourself, human, even a little sentimental, possessed of a sense of humor and a sense of humility....

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Jacques Barzun: In any assembly...

Jacques Barzun: In any assembly...

In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a...

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Marita Bonner: You can, when...

Marita Bonner: You can, when...

You can, when Time is ripe, swope to your feet -- at your full height -- at a single gesture. Ready to go where? Why ....

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Mary McLeod Bethune: When they...

Mary McLeod Bethune: When they...

When they learn of Shakespeare and Goethe, we must teach them of Pushkin and Dumas . . . Whatever the white man has...

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Mary McLeod Bethune: From the first,...

Mary McLeod Bethune: From the first,...

From the first, I made my learning, what little it was, useful every way I could.

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Plato: When the mind...

Plato: When the mind...

When the mind is thinking, it is talking to itself.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Emile M Cioran: There is no...

Emile M Cioran: There is no...

There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.

Source: The New...

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