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Ariel Durant: Education is the...

Ariel Durant: Education is the...

Education is the transmission of civilization.

Source: In Peter's Quotations, by...

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Wilkie Collins: The future of...

Wilkie Collins: The future of...

The future of English fiction may rest with this Unknown Public -- a reading public of three millions which lies right...

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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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Robert Ludlum: The premise which...

Robert Ludlum: The premise which...

The premise which will be the spinal thunderbolt of an incredible tale begins to take on substance as characters...

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Jane Austen: Why not seize...

Jane Austen: Why not seize...

Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish...

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Michel de Certeau: Political organizations have...

Michel de Certeau: Political organizations have...

Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. . ....

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Arthur Schomburg: The American Negro...

Arthur Schomburg: The American Negro...

The American Negro must remake his past in order to make his future . . . History must restore what slavery took...

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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: If you wish...

Carl Sagan: If you wish...

If you wish to make an apple pie truly from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

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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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Konrad Adenauer: History is the...

Konrad Adenauer: History is the...

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.

Source: In...

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Henry David Thoreau: What lies behind...

Henry David Thoreau: What lies behind...

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within...

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George Santayana: By nature's kindly...

George Santayana: By nature's kindly...

By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at...

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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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Emile M Cioran: To want fame...

Emile M Cioran: To want fame...

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Source: The New Gods, ...

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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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Charles Peguy: Freedom is a...

Charles Peguy: Freedom is a...

Freedom is a system based on courage.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference...

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Cynthia Ozick: I'm not afraid...

Cynthia Ozick: I'm not afraid...

I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential...

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Jeremy Collier: Books are but...

Jeremy Collier: Books are but...

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought -- asleep. When we are weary of the...

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