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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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Freda Adler: Stripped of ethical...

Freda Adler: Stripped of ethical...

Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses...

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Kingman Brewster, Jr: Universities should be...

Kingman Brewster, Jr: Universities should be...

Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please...

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Martha Carey Thomas: It is the...

Martha Carey Thomas: It is the...

It is the next step forward on the path to the sunrise, and the sun is rising over a new heaven and a new...

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bell hooks: The academy is...

bell hooks: The academy is...

The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created.

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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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Charles Dickens: As she frequently...

Charles Dickens: As she frequently...

As she frequently remarked when she made any such mistake, it would be all the same a hundred years...

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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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Ken Kesey: I'd rather be...

Ken Kesey: I'd rather be...

I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.

Source: In The Electric Kool-Aid...

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Italo Calvino: A classic is...

Italo Calvino: A classic is...

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

Source: Why...

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Jean Jacques Rousseau: Those that are...

Jean Jacques Rousseau: Those that are...

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of...

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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: The weak can...

Mahatma Gandhi: The weak can...

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Source: In...

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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 support us...

Jeremy Collier: Books support us...

Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.

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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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