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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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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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Patricia Meyer Spacks: Poring over fragments...

Patricia Meyer Spacks: Poring over fragments...

Poring over fragments of other people's lives, peering into their bedrooms when they don't know we're there, we thrill...

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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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Desiderius Erasmus: The fox has...

Desiderius Erasmus: The fox has...

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

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William O Douglas: Free speech is...

William O Douglas: Free speech is...

Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience . . . that hissed yesterday...

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Barbara De Angelis: No one is...

Barbara De Angelis: No one is...

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or...

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Barbara De Angelis: The more connections...

Barbara De Angelis: The more connections...

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and...

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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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Jacques Barzun: Music is intended...

Jacques Barzun: Music is intended...

Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and...

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Amos Bronson Alcott: Thought means life,...

Amos Bronson Alcott: Thought means life,...

Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the...

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Marita Bonner: What's the need...

Marita Bonner: What's the need...

What's the need of working if it doesn't get you anywhere? What's the use of boring around in the same hole like a...

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Dale Carnegie: Remember happiness doesn't...

Dale Carnegie: Remember happiness doesn't...

Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what you...

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Pearl Buck: The young do...

Pearl Buck: The young do...

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible-and achieve it, generation after...

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Lewis Carroll: The rule is,...

Lewis Carroll: The rule is,...

The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday -- but never jam today.

Source: The...

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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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Margaret Walker: When I was...

Margaret Walker: When I was...

When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a...

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Grace Murray Hopper: From then on,...

Grace Murray Hopper: From then on,...

From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.

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Charles Simmons: He who wants...

Charles Simmons: He who wants...

He who wants to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything. Life is made up of little things. True...

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