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Gilbert Highet: The mind never...

Gilbert Highet: The mind never...

The mind never need stop growing. One of the few experiences which never pall is the experience of watching one's own...

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Freda Adler: That man is...

Freda Adler: That man is...

That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws...

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Warren Bennis: Failing organizations are...

Warren Bennis: Failing organizations are...

Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.

Source: The...

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Mary Jean LeTendre: The challenge for...

Mary Jean LeTendre: The challenge for...

The challenge for the 21st century is to bring together parents, the early childhood community, and schools so that...

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Sarah Orne Jewett: The road was...

Sarah Orne Jewett: The road was...

The road was new to me, as roads always are, going back.

Source: The Country of the...

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Margot Asquith: Rich men's houses...

Margot Asquith: Rich men's houses...

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to...

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Ralph Ellison: If the word...

Ralph Ellison: If the word...

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and...

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Agatha Christie: I didn't want...

Agatha Christie: I didn't want...

I didn't want to work. It was as simple as that. I distrusted work, disliked it. I thought it was a very bad thing...

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Jean Toomer: We learn the...

Jean Toomer: We learn the...

We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Elizabeth Montagu: . . ....

Elizabeth Montagu: . . ....

. . . there is a much higher character from that of a wit or a poet or a savant, which is that of a rational sociable...

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Charles Montesquieu: If one only...

Charles Montesquieu: If one only...

If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and...

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Etty Hillesum: Become simple and...

Etty Hillesum: Become simple and...

Become simple and live simply, not only within yourself but also in your everyday dealings. Don't make ripples all...

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Northrop Frye: Americans like to...

Northrop Frye: Americans like to...

Americans like to make money; Canadians like to audit it. I know no other country where accountants have a higher...

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John Dalberg Acton: The danger is...

John Dalberg Acton: The danger is...

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to...

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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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Henry Brooks Adams: No man likes...

Henry Brooks Adams: No man likes...

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it...

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Carter G Woodson: Truth must be...

Carter G Woodson: Truth must be...

Truth must be dug up from the past and presented to the circle of scholastics in scientific form and then through...

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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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George Steiner: To shoot a...

George Steiner: To shoot a...

To shoot a man because one disagrees with his interpretation of Darwin or Hegel is a sinister tribute to the supremacy...

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Margaret Walker: The poetry of...

Margaret Walker: The poetry of...

The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our...

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