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Henry Brooks Adams: No man means...

Henry Brooks Adams: No man means...

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is...

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George Bancroft: The exact measure...

George Bancroft: The exact measure...

The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has...

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Theodore H White: The best time...

Theodore H White: The best time...

The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's...

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Henry Brooks Adams: Politics, whatever its...

Henry Brooks Adams: Politics, whatever its...

Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of...

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Carter G Woodson: We need workers,...

Carter G Woodson: We need workers,...

We need workers, not leaders. Such workers will solve the problems which race leaders talk...

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Nathan Huggins: Death mattered not...

Nathan Huggins: Death mattered not...

Death mattered not -- It was a mere puncutation

Source: Black Odyssey, 1977
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George Steiner: The ordinary man...

George Steiner: The ordinary man...

The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts...

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Edith Hamilton: To be able...

Edith Hamilton: To be able...

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought -- that is being educated.

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Paule Marshall: Sometimes a person...

Paule Marshall: Sometimes a person...

Sometimes a person has to go back, really back -- to have a sense, an understanding of all that's gone to make them --...

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Orison Swett Marden: If we put...

Orison Swett Marden: If we put...

If we put the emphasis upon the right things, if we live the life that is worth while and then fail, we will survive...

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Noam Chomsky: Unlimited economic growth...

Noam Chomsky: Unlimited economic growth...

Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that...

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Van Wyck Brooks: The American mind,...

Van Wyck Brooks: The American mind,...

The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, . . . by...

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Pearl Buck: Sometimes I would...

Pearl Buck: Sometimes I would...

Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than take away a...

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Ralph Ellison: When I discover...

Ralph Ellison: When I discover...

When I discover who I am, I'll be free.

Source: In Famous Black Quotations, ed....

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Ralph Ellison: There must be...

Ralph Ellison: There must be...

There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the...

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Agatha Christie: The best time...

Agatha Christie: The best time...

The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes.

Source: In An...

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E L Doctorow: We dress them...

E L Doctorow: We dress them...

We dress them [children] in the presumptions of the world. They are the bright small face of hope. They are the last...

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Francois Rabelais: What cannot be...

Francois Rabelais: What cannot be...

What cannot be cured must be endured.

Source: Works.
-- Francois Rabelais, ( ...

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Margot Asquith: Symbols are the...

Margot Asquith: Symbols are the...

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

Source: More or Less about Myself,...

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Margot Asquith: To marry a...

Margot Asquith: To marry a...

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had...

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