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William O Douglas: Common sense often...

William O Douglas: Common sense often...

Common sense often makes good law.

Source: In court ruling, 25 Mar 1957.
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Benjamin Jowett: Logic is neither...

Benjamin Jowett: Logic is neither...

Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge.

Source: In Correct Quotes for...

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Emma Hart Willard: Rocked in the...

Emma Hart Willard: Rocked in the...

Rocked in the cradle of the deep
I lay me down in peace to sleep;
Secure I rest upon the wave,
For Thou, O...

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Catharine Esther Beecher: How many young...

Catharine Esther Beecher: How many young...

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity...

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Kingman Brewster, Jr: If I take...

Kingman Brewster, Jr: If I take...

If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you it's quite conscious.

Source: In The...

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Martha Carey Thomas: . . ....

Martha Carey Thomas: . . ....

. . . a woman can be a woman and a true one without having all her time engrossed by dress and...

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Stephen Leacock: If I were...

Stephen Leacock: If I were...

If I were founding a university I would begin with a smoking room; next a dormitory; and then a decent reading room...

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E L Doctorow: We're always attracted...

E L Doctorow: We're always attracted...

We're always attracted to the edges of what we are, out by the edges where it's a little raw and...

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Nora Ephron: We have lived...

Nora Ephron: We have lived...

We have lived through the era when happiness was a warm puppy, and the era when happiness was a dry martini, and now...

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Kingsley Amis: Death has got...

Kingsley Amis: Death has got...

Death has got something to be said for it:
There's no need to get out of bed for it;
Wherever you may...

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Charles Simmons: It is a...

Charles Simmons: It is a...

It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided...

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Lewis Carroll: Everything's got a...

Lewis Carroll: Everything's got a...

Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.

Source: Alice's Adventures in...

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Ralph Ellison: I am invisible,...

Ralph Ellison: I am invisible,...

I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

Source: The...

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Nathaniel Hawthorne: The world owes...

Nathaniel Hawthorne: The world owes...

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient...

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Cynthia Ozick: The engineering is...

Cynthia Ozick: The engineering is...

The engineering is secondary to the vision.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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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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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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Mary McLeod Bethune: If we have...

Mary McLeod Bethune: If we have...

If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we...

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George Santayana: Science is nothing...

George Santayana: Science is nothing...

Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely...

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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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