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Plato: When the mind...

Plato: When the mind...

When the mind is thinking, it is talking to itself.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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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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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: 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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Edward Everett Hale: I am only...

Edward Everett Hale: I am only...

I am only one,
But still I am one.
I cannot do everything,
But still I can do something;
And because I...

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Thomas Hobbes: No man's error...

Thomas Hobbes: No man's error...

No man's error becomes his own law; nor obliges him to persist in it.

Source: In...

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Jiddu Krishnamurti: What is needed,...

Jiddu Krishnamurti: What is needed,...

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear;...

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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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Alice Walker: People tend to...

Alice Walker: People tend to...

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only...

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Boris Pasternak: The whole of...

Boris Pasternak: The whole of...

The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.

Source: In...

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Boris Pasternak: In every generation...

Boris Pasternak: In every generation...

In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.

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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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Agatha Christie: I like living....

Agatha Christie: I like living....

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I...

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Nora Ephron: With any child...

Nora Ephron: With any child...

With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the...

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Pliny the Elder: The lust of...

Pliny the Elder: The lust of...

The lust of avarice has so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they...

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Gail Pursell Elliott: As a society,...

Gail Pursell Elliott: As a society,...

As a society, we have come to a point where people too often treat one another as objects and opportunities, rather...

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Sandra Day O'Connor: The more education...

Sandra Day O'Connor: The more education...

The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between men's and women's earnings for the same...

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Sandra Day O'Connor: It is difficult...

Sandra Day O'Connor: It is difficult...

It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful...

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Clarence Thomas: [T]he job of...

Clarence Thomas: [T]he job of...

[T]he job of a judge is to figure out what the law says, not what he wants it to say. There is a difference between...

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Louis Brandeis: In differentiation, not...

Louis Brandeis: In differentiation, not...

In differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress.

Source: Business...

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