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Aesop: Slow and steady...

Aesop: Slow and steady...

Slow and steady wins the race.

Source: The Hare and the Tortoise.
-- Aesop, ( ...

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Statues and pictures...

Statues and pictures...

Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they...

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It takes a...

It takes a...

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Source: In The...

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Virginia Woolf: One likes people...

Virginia Woolf: One likes people...

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they...

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Terence: The nature of...

Terence: The nature of...

The nature of all men is so formed that they see and discriminate in the affairs of others, much better than in their...

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Henry Brooks Adams: Power is poison....

Henry Brooks Adams: Power is poison....

Power is poison. It's effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

Source: The...

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Saul Steinberg: I am among...

Saul Steinberg: I am among...

I am among the few who continue to draw after childhood is ended, continuing and perfecting childhood drawing --...

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Oscar Wilde: The only thing...

Oscar Wilde: The only thing...

The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing...

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It is cruel,...

It is cruel,...

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness & of pain: of strength &...

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Terence: How often events,...

Terence: How often events,...

How often events, by chance, and quite unexpectedly, come to pass, which you had not dared even to hope...

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Ann Plato: A good education...

Ann Plato: A good education...

A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation...

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Jackson Pollock: The modern artist,...

Jackson Pollock: The modern artist,...

The modern artist, it seems to me, is working and expressing an inner world in other words - expressing the energy,...

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Rachel Carson: The ocean is...

Rachel Carson: The ocean is...

The ocean is a place of paradoxes.

Source: Atlantic Monthly, 9/1/1937
-- Rachel...

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Claudius: Say not always...

Claudius: Say not always...

Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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When you tell...

When you tell...

When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his...

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Aldous Huxley: It is far...

Aldous Huxley: It is far...

It is far easier to write ten passable effective sonnets, good enough to take in the not too inquiring critic, than...

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Al Bernstein: Easy DOESN'T do...

Al Bernstein: Easy DOESN'T do...

Easy DOESN'T do it.

Source: In Chicago Sun-Times.
-- Al Bernstein, (Sep 15...

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Ben Stein: There is no...

Ben Stein: There is no...

There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere. There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the...

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Sonia Johnson: All bonafide revolutions...

Sonia Johnson: All bonafide revolutions...

All bonafide revolutions are of necessity revolutions of the spirit.

Source: In...

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Bruce Barton: Sometimes when I...

Bruce Barton: Sometimes when I...

Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things . . . I am tempted to think there are...

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