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James Thurber: Art -- the...

James Thurber: Art -- the...

Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well...

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Michael Crichton: In the information...

Michael Crichton: In the information...

In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish...

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Salman Rushdie: If you want...

Salman Rushdie: If you want...

If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got to find a language....

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Jane Austen: How can you...

Jane Austen: How can you...

How can you contrive to write so even?

Source: (Miss Bingley) Pride and Prejudice,...

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Charles Dickens: The whole difference...

Charles Dickens: The whole difference...

The whole difference between construction and creation is this; that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is...

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Christopher Lasch: Once women begin...

Christopher Lasch: Once women begin...

Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly...

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Sarah Louise Delany: Life is short,...

Sarah Louise Delany: Life is short,...

Life is short, and it's up to you to make it sweet.

Source: In Words to Make My...

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Catharine Esther Beecher: To open avenues...

Catharine Esther Beecher: To open avenues...

To open avenues to political place and power for all classes of women would cause [the] humble labors of the family...

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Freda Adler: If one would...

Freda Adler: If one would...

If one would discern the centers of dominance in any society, one need only look to its definitions of virtue and vice...

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Georges Pompidou: The most dangerous...

Georges Pompidou: The most dangerous...

The most dangerous thing about student riots is that adults take them seriously.

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Epictetus: Everything has two...

Epictetus: Everything has two...

Everything has two handles: one by which it may be borne, another by which it cannot.

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Epictetus: You may be...

Epictetus: You may be...

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon...

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Mahatma Gandhi: Rationalists are admirable...

Mahatma Gandhi: Rationalists are admirable...

Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution...

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Jean Jacques Rousseau: Although modesty is...

Jean Jacques Rousseau: Although modesty is...

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of...

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Charles Peguy: He who does...

Charles Peguy: He who does...

He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and...

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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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Friedrich Nietzsche: He who despises...

Friedrich Nietzsche: He who despises...

He who despises himself nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser.

Source: In...

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Taylor Caldwell: Honest men live...

Taylor Caldwell: Honest men live...

Honest men live on charity in their age; the alm houses are full of men who never stole a copper penny. Honest men are...

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Mary McCarthy: Every age has...

Mary McCarthy: Every age has...

Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.

Source: On the Contrary, pt. 1,...

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Maxine Hong Kingston: The difference between...

Maxine Hong Kingston: The difference between...

The difference between mad people and sane people . . . is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad...

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