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Charles Kingsley: We act as...

Charles Kingsley: We act as...

We act as though comfort luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is...

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Jean Genet: What we need...

Jean Genet: What we need...

What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.

Source: The Blacks, 1959.
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Agatha Christie: Most successes are...

Agatha Christie: Most successes are...

Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by...

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Agatha Christie: An archaeologist is...

Agatha Christie: An archaeologist is...

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in...

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Pliny the Elder: There is always...

Pliny the Elder: There is always...

There is always something new out of Africa.

Source: Natural History, VIII
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Naomi Weisstein: Evidence and reason:...

Naomi Weisstein: Evidence and reason:...

Evidence and reason: my heroes and my guides.

Source: Women Look at Biology Looking...

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Richard Francis Burton: As threshing separates...

Richard Francis Burton: As threshing separates...

As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.

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Jacques Barzun: The intellectuals' chief...

Jacques Barzun: The intellectuals' chief...

The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works.

Source: The...

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Marita Bonner: The one real...

Marita Bonner: The one real...

The one real thing that money buys -- Time.

Source: On Being Young -- A Woman --...

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Dale Carnegie: First ask yourself:...

Dale Carnegie: First ask yourself:...

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the...

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Dale Carnegie: Any fool can...

Dale Carnegie: Any fool can...

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most do.

Source: In Readers'...

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Jean Toomer: Talk about it...

Jean Toomer: Talk about it...

Talk about it only enough to do it. Dream about it only enough to feel it. Think about it only enough to understand...

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Maria Edgeworth: When one illusion...

Maria Edgeworth: When one illusion...

When one illusion vanishes, another shall appear, and, still leading me forward towards an horizon that retreats as I...

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Thomas Mann: Opinions cannot survive...

Thomas Mann: Opinions cannot survive...

Opinions cannot survive if no one has a chance to fight for them.

Source: The Magic...

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Nelson Algren: The hard necessity...

Nelson Algren: The hard necessity...

The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the...

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Nelson Algren: I went out...

Nelson Algren: I went out...

I went out there [Hollywood] for a thousand a week, and I worked Monday, and I got fired Wednesday. The guy that hired...

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Milan Kundera: No great movement...

Milan Kundera: No great movement...

No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes...

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Margaret Atwood: The truly fearless...

Margaret Atwood: The truly fearless...

The truly fearless think of themselves as normal.

Source: Bluebeard's Egg,...

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Ralph Ellison: The act of...

Ralph Ellison: The act of...

The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers...

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Ralph Ellison: I am invisible,...

Ralph Ellison: I am invisible,...

I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

Source: The...

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