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Thomas Henry Huxley: I am too...

Thomas Henry Huxley: I am too...

I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything.

Source: Letter to...

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Carl Linnaeus: Linnea.. . ....

Carl Linnaeus: Linnea.. . ....

Linnea.. . . A plant of Lapland, lowly, insignificant, disregarded, flowering but for a brief space -- from Linnaeus...

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Ellen Swallow Richards: The Faculty [of...

Ellen Swallow Richards: The Faculty [of...

The Faculty [of Vassar] do not consider it a mere experiment any longer that girls can be educated as well as...

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Joseph Priestley: In completing one...

Joseph Priestley: In completing one...

In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea...

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Charles Steinmetz: No man really...

Charles Steinmetz: No man really...

No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.

Source: In The...

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Andy Warhol: An artist is...

Andy Warhol: An artist is...

An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he -- for some reason -- thinks it...

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Elsa Schiaparelli: Eating is not...

Elsa Schiaparelli: Eating is not...

Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to...

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Rainer M Rilke: Fame is the...

Rainer M Rilke: Fame is the...

Fame is the sum of the misunderstanding that gathers about a new name.

Source: In...

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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus: The object in...

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus: The object in...

The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the...

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Sylvester Stallone: Once is a...

Sylvester Stallone: Once is a...

Once is a man's life, for one mortal moment, he must make a grab for immorality; if not, he has not...

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Percy Bysshe Shelley: Reason respects differences,...

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Reason respects differences,...

Reason respects differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.

Source: In...

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Paul Verlaine: And everything else...

Paul Verlaine: And everything else...

And everything else is just literature

Source: [Et tout le reste est litt?rature];...

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When in doubt,...

When in doubt,...

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and...

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Glory is a...

Glory is a...

Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is...

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Since every death...

Since every death...

Since every death diminishes a little, we grieve -- not so much for the death as for...

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To write is...

To write is...

To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking --and since it cannot, in order to become its echo...

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God forbid that...

God forbid that...

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.

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Ironically, women who...

Ironically, women who...

Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had...

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That's the point...

That's the point...

That's the point of quotations, you know: one can use another's words to be insulting.

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Imagination, which is...

Imagination, which is...

Imagination, which is the eldorado of the poet and of the novel-writer, often proves the most pernicious gift to the...

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