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Thomas Mann: An art whose...

Thomas Mann: An art whose...

An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a...

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Lisa Alther: I wrote for...

Lisa Alther: I wrote for...

I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside...

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John LeCarre: It's easy to...

John LeCarre: It's easy to...

It's easy to forget what intelligence consists of: luck and speculation. Here and there a windfall, here and there a...

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Leo Tolstoy: Error is the...

Leo Tolstoy: Error is the...

Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of...

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John Mortimer: The worst fault...

John Mortimer: The worst fault...

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life,...

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Margaret Atwood: A divorce is...

Margaret Atwood: A divorce is...

A divorce is like an amputation; you survive, but there's less of you.

Source: In...

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Artemus Ward: I am happiest...

Artemus Ward: I am happiest...

I am happiest when I am idle. I could live for months without performing any kind of labor, and at the expiration of...

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Nancy Astor: The penalty of...

Nancy Astor: The penalty of...

The penalty of success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.

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Arthur Koestler: Creativity is a...

Arthur Koestler: Creativity is a...

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same...

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Tom Clancy: The difference between...

Tom Clancy: The difference between...

The difference between reality and fiction? Fiction has to make sense.

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James Agee: Understanding, and action...

James Agee: Understanding, and action...

Understanding, and action proceeding from understanding and guided by it, is one weapon against the world's...

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Kenneth MacKenzie Clark: A visual experience...

Kenneth MacKenzie Clark: A visual experience...

A visual experience is vitalizing. Whereas to write great poetry, to draw continuously on one's inner life, is not...

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Derek Bok: I won't say...

Derek Bok: I won't say...

I won't say there aren't any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. But they have done so to...

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Mark Hopkins: Christianity is the...

Mark Hopkins: Christianity is the...

Christianity is the greatest civilizing, moulding, uplifting power on this globe.

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Sarah Louise Delany: Oh, Mama was...

Sarah Louise Delany: Oh, Mama was...

Oh, Mama was a smart woman. It takes a smart woman to fall in love with a good man.

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Gilbert Highet: These are not...

Gilbert Highet: These are not...

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own...

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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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Henry David Thoreau: Man's capacities have...

Henry David Thoreau: Man's capacities have...

Man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedent, so little has been...

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Gotthold Lessing: He who doesn't...

Gotthold Lessing: He who doesn't...

He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.

Source: In...

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