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James A Froude: Instruction does not...

James A Froude: Instruction does not...

Instruction does not prevent waster of time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of...

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Stephen Leacock: What we call...

Stephen Leacock: What we call...

What we call creative work ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. . . . I imagine that Thomas Edison...

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Addison Gayle, Jr: The extent of...

Addison Gayle, Jr: The extent of...

The extent of the cultural strangulation of Black literature by white critics has been the extent to which they have...

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Austin O'Malley: The best blood...

Austin O'Malley: The best blood...

The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.

Source: In Correct...

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Mary McLeod Bethune: I never stop...

Mary McLeod Bethune: I never stop...

I never stop to plan. I take things step by step.

Source: Faith That Moved a Dump...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: What really raises...

Friedrich Nietzsche: What really raises...

What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of...

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Plutarch: The mind is...

Plutarch: The mind is...

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be ignited.

Source: In The...

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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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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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Mark Twain: Methuselah lived to...

Mark Twain: Methuselah lived to...

Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in...

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Sholom Aleichem: No matter how...

Sholom Aleichem: No matter how...

No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you.

Source:...

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Innovators and men...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Innovators and men...

Innovators and men of genius have almost always been regarded as fools at the beginning (and very often at the end) of...

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Agatha Christie: The human mind...

Agatha Christie: The human mind...

The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will,...

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George Eliot: All meanings, we...

George Eliot: All meanings, we...

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

Source: Daniel Deronda,...

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George Eliot: What a wretched...

George Eliot: What a wretched...

What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind --the uglier we get in the eyes of...

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Charles Dickens: It is a...

Charles Dickens: It is a...

It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual...

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Oscar Wilde: But what is...

Oscar Wilde: But what is...

But what is the difference between literature and journalism? ... Journalism is unreadable, and literature is not...

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James McNeill Whistler: If the man...

James McNeill Whistler: If the man...

If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king of...

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James McNeill Whistler: To say of...

James McNeill Whistler: To say of...

To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labour, is to say that it is...

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Paul Cezanne: I am the...

Paul Cezanne: I am the...

I am the primitive of the method I have invented.

Source: In Newsweek, Oct 17...

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