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Agatha Christie: We owe most...

Agatha Christie: We owe most...

We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness-either enforced or...

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Hannah Arendt: Revolutionaries do not...

Hannah Arendt: Revolutionaries do not...

Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and...

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Naomi Weisstein: Except for their...

Naomi Weisstein: Except for their...

Except for their genitals, I don't know what immutable differences exist between men and women. [U]ntil social...

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Thurgood Marshall: Sometimes history takes...

Thurgood Marshall: Sometimes history takes...

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

Source: c. 1983.
-- Thurgood...

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Potter Stewart: I shall not...

Potter Stewart: I shall not...

I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material [pornography] . . . but I know it when I see...

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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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Omar Bradley: This strategy would...

Omar Bradley: This strategy would...

This strategy would involve us in the wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong...

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Charles A Beard: The mills of...

Charles A Beard: The mills of...

The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small.

Source: Four...

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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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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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Louis Auchincloss: The glittering structure...

Louis Auchincloss: The glittering structure...

The glittering structure of her cultivation sits on her novels like a rather showy icing that detracts from the cake...

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Jiddu Krishnamurti: Meditation is not...

Jiddu Krishnamurti: Meditation is not...

Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end.

Source: The...

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Mahatma Gandhi: I eat to...

Mahatma Gandhi: I eat to...

I eat to live, to serve, and also, if it so happens, to enjoy, but I do not eat for the sake of...

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Jiddu Krishnamurti: The constant assertion...

Jiddu Krishnamurti: The constant assertion...

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

Source: 'The Second...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: Where does one...

Friedrich Nietzsche: Where does one...

Where does one not find that bland degeneration which beer produces in the spirit!

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