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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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Mary Ritter Beard: While it is...

Mary Ritter Beard: While it is...

While it is generally agreed that the visible expressions and agencies are necessary instruments, civilization seems...

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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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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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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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Henry David Thoreau: Knowledge does not...

Henry David Thoreau: Knowledge does not...

Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

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Konrad Lorenz: Historians will have...

Konrad Lorenz: Historians will have...

Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner...

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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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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 Borrow: It has been...

George Borrow: It has been...

It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt...

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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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Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: Wit consists in...

Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: Wit consists in...

Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are...

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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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Charles Kingsley: He was one...

Charles Kingsley: He was one...

He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use...

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Margaret Atwood: The beginning of...

Margaret Atwood: The beginning of...

The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not Am I really that oppressed? but Am I really that...

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