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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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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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Noam Chomsky: Colourless green ideas...

Noam Chomsky: Colourless green ideas...

Colourless green ideas sleep furiously.

Source: Used by Chomsky to demonstrate that...

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Ralph Ellison: The understanding of...

Ralph Ellison: The understanding of...

The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human...

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Agatha Christie: I don't think...

Agatha Christie: I don't think...

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention -- invention . . . arises directly from idleness, possibly also...

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Chuck Yeager: You do what...

Chuck Yeager: You do what...

You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can't, you do the next best thing. You back up but...

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Guillaume Apollinaire: It's raining my...

Guillaume Apollinaire: It's raining my...

It's raining my soul, it's raining, but it's raining dead eyes.

Source: La Nuit...

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Louis Auchincloss: Perfection irritates as...

Louis Auchincloss: Perfection irritates as...

Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.

Source:...

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Sholom Aleichem: Life is a...

Sholom Aleichem: Life is a...

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the...

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Henry Miller: All growth is...

Henry Miller: All growth is...

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of...

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Lewis Carroll: Twinkle, twinkle, little...

Lewis Carroll: Twinkle, twinkle, little...

Twinkle, twinkle, little bat!
How I wonder what you're at!
Up above the world you fly!
Like a teatray in the...

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Robert Penn Warren: The poem ....

Robert Penn Warren: The poem ....

The poem . . . is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing...

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Adolf Hitler: What luck for...

Adolf Hitler: What luck for...

What luck for rulers that men do not think.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Dwight D Eisenhower: A sense of...

Dwight D Eisenhower: A sense of...

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things...

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Henry David Thoreau: How vain it...

Henry David Thoreau: How vain it...

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Source: In...

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Emile Durkheim: Sadness does not...

Emile Durkheim: Sadness does not...

Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. ...

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Kenneth MacKenzie Clark: The great achievement...

Kenneth MacKenzie Clark: The great achievement...

The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant...

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Christopher Lasch: The job of...

Christopher Lasch: The job of...

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.

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Nannie Burroughs: When the Negro...

Nannie Burroughs: When the Negro...

When the Negro learns what manner of man he is spiritually, he will wake up all over. He will stop playing white even...

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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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