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Cynthia Ozick: To imagine the...

Cynthia Ozick: To imagine the...

To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination.

Source: In Words...

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Cynthia Ozick: After a certain...

Cynthia Ozick: After a certain...

After a certain number of years our faces become our biographies. We get to be responsible for our...

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E L Doctorow: Writing is an...

E L Doctorow: Writing is an...

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

Source: In...

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Daniel Defoe: Middle age is...

Daniel Defoe: Middle age is...

Middle age is youth without its levity,
And age without decay.


Source: In...

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Francois Rabelais: What cannot be...

Francois Rabelais: What cannot be...

What cannot be cured must be endured.

Source: Works.
-- Francois Rabelais, ( ...

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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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Sun Tzu [Wu]: O divine art...

Sun Tzu [Wu]: O divine art...

O divine art of sublety and secrecy! Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible and hence we can...

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Oliver Cromwell: No one rises...

Oliver Cromwell: No one rises...

No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.

Source: In Memoires,...

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Charles A Beard: When it is...

Charles A Beard: When it is...

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

Source: Four Lessons of History, in...

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Nathan Huggins: Those who would...

Nathan Huggins: Those who would...

Those who would be called tyrants cannot be called free men.

Source: Black Odyssey,...

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr: Young man, the...

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr: Young man, the...

Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.

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William Blackstone: Time whereof the...

William Blackstone: Time whereof the...

Time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary.

Source: Commentaries on...

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Van Wyck Brooks: The creative impulses...

Van Wyck Brooks: The creative impulses...

The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.

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Louis Brandeis: Most of the...

Louis Brandeis: Most of the...

Most of the things worth doing in the world have been declared impossible before they were...

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Harry A Blackmun: If one's in...

Harry A Blackmun: If one's in...

If one's in the doghouse with the Chief, he gets the crud. He gets the tax cases and some of the Indian cases, which I...

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Benjamin Cardozo: Prophecy, however honest,...

Benjamin Cardozo: Prophecy, however honest,...

Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.

Source: In...

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Barbara De Angelis: We need to...

Barbara De Angelis: We need to...

We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover...

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Barbara De Angelis: The greatest gift...

Barbara De Angelis: The greatest gift...

The greatest gift you and your partner can give your children is the example of an intimate, healthy, and loving...

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Jacques Barzun: Art distills sensation...

Jacques Barzun: Art distills sensation...

Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form -- or else it is not...

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Amos Bronson Alcott: To be ignorant...

Amos Bronson Alcott: To be ignorant...

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.

Source: In The...

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