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Jean Genet: What we need...

Jean Genet: What we need...

What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.

Source: The Blacks, 1959.
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Charles Simmons: Never go backward....

Charles Simmons: Never go backward....

Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.

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Artemus Ward: It ain't so...

Artemus Ward: It ain't so...

It ain't so much what people don't know that hurts as what they know that ain't so.

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Robert Nathan: Give exceeding thanks...

Robert Nathan: Give exceeding thanks...

Give exceeding thanks for the mystery which remains a mystery still -- the veil that hides you from the infinite,...

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Robert Nathan: Sorrow is a...

Robert Nathan: Sorrow is a...

Sorrow is a silence in the heart.

Source: A Cedar Box.
-- Robert Nathan, (Jan 2...

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Thomas Mann: A great truth...

Thomas Mann: A great truth...

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

Source: Essay on...

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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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Florence Scovel Shinn: We cannot always...

Florence Scovel Shinn: We cannot always...

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we...

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Ivan Turgenev: Whatever man prays...

Ivan Turgenev: Whatever man prays...

Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself to this -- Great God, grant that twice two...

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Cynthia Ozick: I'm not afraid...

Cynthia Ozick: I'm not afraid...

I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential...

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Thomas Hobbes: The secret thoughts...

Thomas Hobbes: The secret thoughts...

The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or...

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Mahatma Gandhi: The weak can...

Mahatma Gandhi: The weak can...

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Source: In...

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Jiddu Krishnamurti: The constant assertion...

Jiddu Krishnamurti: The constant assertion...

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

Source: 'The Second...

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Jean Jacques Rousseau: A feeble body...

Jean Jacques Rousseau: A feeble body...

A feeble body weakens the mind.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Emile M Cioran: No one recovers...

Emile M Cioran: No one recovers...

No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.

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Emile M Cioran: Torment, for some...

Emile M Cioran: Torment, for some...

Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.

Source: The...

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Charles Peguy: Freedom is a...

Charles Peguy: Freedom is a...

Freedom is a system based on courage.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: Existence really is...

Friedrich Nietzsche: Existence really is...

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

Source: The...

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Mary McLeod Bethune: There is a...

Mary McLeod Bethune: There is a...

There is a place in God's sun for the youth farthest down who has the vision, the determination, and the courage to...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: The great man...

Friedrich Nietzsche: The great man...

The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and...

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