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Orison Swett Marden: Opportunities? They are...

Orison Swett Marden: Opportunities? They are...

Opportunities? They are all around us. . . There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to...

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Van Wyck Brooks: The instructed man...

Van Wyck Brooks: The instructed man...

The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an Orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people...

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Edgar Watson Howe: No man would...

Edgar Watson Howe: No man would...

No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next.

Source: In...

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George Steiner: Chess may be...

George Steiner: Chess may be...

Chess may be the deepest, least exhaustible of pastimes, but it is nothing more. As for a chess genius, he is a human...

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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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Horatio Nelson: When I came...

Horatio Nelson: When I came...

When I came to explain to them the 'Nelson Touch', it was like an electric shock. Some shed tears, all approved - 'It...

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Charles Simmons: Both mind and...

Charles Simmons: Both mind and...

Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of...

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Pliny the Elder: No one is...

Pliny the Elder: No one is...

No one is wise at all times.

Source: 'Natural History' [Emerson said it too:...

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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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Gail Pursell Elliott: As a society,...

Gail Pursell Elliott: As a society,...

As a society, we have come to a point where people too often treat one another as objects and opportunities, rather...

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Charles Evans Hughes: I believe in...

Charles Evans Hughes: I believe in...

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and...

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William C Nell: I yield to...

William C Nell: I yield to...

I yield to no one in appreciating the propriety and pertinency of every effort, on the part of Colored Americans, in...

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Theodore H White: I, alas, must...

Theodore H White: I, alas, must...

I, alas, must present myself somewhat ignominiously as a chef in a busy kitchen. Somewhere a novel is bubbling on a...

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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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Jacob Bronowski: Knowledge is an...

Jacob Bronowski: Knowledge is an...

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

Source: In The...

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Ken Kesey: I'd rather be...

Ken Kesey: I'd rather be...

I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.

Source: In The Electric Kool-Aid...

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Peter De Vries: Or look at...

Peter De Vries: Or look at...

Or look at it this way.
Psychoanalysis is a permanent fad.


Source: Forever...

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V S Naipaul: The world is...

V S Naipaul: The world is...

The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in...

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Lisa Alther: I happen to...

Lisa Alther: I happen to...

I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting...

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