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Bertolt Brecht: We need a...

Bertolt Brecht: We need a...

We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular...

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Dwight D Eisenhower: What counts is...

Dwight D Eisenhower: What counts is...

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the...

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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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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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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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Stephen Leacock: It takes a...

Stephen Leacock: It takes a...

It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a...

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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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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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Pliny the Elder: The brain is...

Pliny the Elder: The brain is...

The brain is the citadel of sense perception.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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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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