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Sylvester Stallone: Once is a...

Sylvester Stallone: Once is a...

Once is a man's life, for one mortal moment, he must make a grab for immorality; if not, he has not...

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Paul Verlaine: And everything else...

Paul Verlaine: And everything else...

And everything else is just literature

Source: [Et tout le reste est litt?rature];...

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Linus Pauling: Science is the...

Linus Pauling: Science is the...

Science is the search for truth - it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to...

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Robert Brustein: The primary function...

Robert Brustein: The primary function...

The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve...

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Emma Hart Willard: While their sisters...

Emma Hart Willard: While their sisters...

While their sisters are gliding through the mazes of the midnight dance, [sons] employ the lamp, to treasure up for...

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Diane Ravitch: The greatest obstacle...

Diane Ravitch: The greatest obstacle...

The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.

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Emily James Putnam: But the typical...

Emily James Putnam: But the typical...

But the typical lady everywhere tends to the feudal habit of mind.

Source:...

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Molefi Kete Asante: The person who...

Molefi Kete Asante: The person who...

The person who strays away from the source is unroofed and is like dust blown about by the...

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Laurence J Peter: If at first...

Laurence J Peter: If at first...

If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Source: In Friendly Advice, ed. Jon...

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Gilbert Highet: [B]y taking down...

Gilbert Highet: [B]y taking down...

[B]y taking down one of these volumes and opening it, one can call into range the voice of a man far distant in time...

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Benjamin E Mays: We, today, stand...

Benjamin E Mays: We, today, stand...

We, today, stand on the shoulders of our predecessors who have gone before us. We, as their successors, must catch...

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Kingman Brewster, Jr: While the spoken...

Kingman Brewster, Jr: While the spoken...

While the spoken word can travel faster, you can't take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed...

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Warren Bennis: Ineffective leaders often...

Warren Bennis: Ineffective leaders often...

Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.

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Miguel de Unamuno: We never know,...

Miguel de Unamuno: We never know,...

We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Robert Hayden: [My poetry is]...

Robert Hayden: [My poetry is]...

[My poetry is] a way of coming to grips with reality . . . a way of discovery and definition. It is a way of solving...

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William Stanley Braithwaite: There was something...

William Stanley Braithwaite: There was something...

There was something in me grieves
That was never born, and died.


Source: Throw...

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Horace Mann: It is more...

Horace Mann: It is more...

It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die...

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Kelly Miller: I see that...

Kelly Miller: I see that...

I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the...

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Estelle Ramey: . ....

Estelle Ramey: . ....

. . . what is human and the same about the males and females classified as Homo sapiens is much greater than the...

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Wayne Dyer: It's never too...

Wayne Dyer: It's never too...

It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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