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Rumer Godden: For a dyed-in-the-wool...

Rumer Godden: For a dyed-in-the-wool...

For a dyed-in-the-wool author, nothing is as dead as a book once it is written. . . . She is rather like a cat whose...

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Salman Rushdie: The novel does...

Salman Rushdie: The novel does...

The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language but it insists upon the freedom to portray and analyse the...

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Immanuel Kant: Imagination is a...

Immanuel Kant: Imagination is a...

Imagination is a powerful agent for creating, as it were, a second nature out of the material supplied to it by actual...

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Immanuel Kant: All thought must,...

Immanuel Kant: All thought must,...

All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and...

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John Locke: It is one...

John Locke: It is one...

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of...

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Plato: The beginning is...

Plato: The beginning is...

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Source: The Republic. Book...

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Emile Chartier: We prove what...

Emile Chartier: We prove what...

We prove what we want to prove, and the real difficulty is to know what we want to prove.

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Emile M Cioran: A sensation must...

Emile M Cioran: A sensation must...

A sensation must have fallen very low to deign to turn into an idea.

Source:...

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Emile M Cioran: The history of...

Emile M Cioran: The history of...

The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men.

Source: In...

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George Steiner: To shoot a...

George Steiner: To shoot a...

To shoot a man because one disagrees with his interpretation of Darwin or Hegel is a sinister tribute to the supremacy...

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Norman Schwarzkopf: Leadership is a...

Norman Schwarzkopf: Leadership is a...

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the...

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Grace Murray Hopper: Some day, on...

Grace Murray Hopper: Some day, on...

Some day, on the corporate balance sheet, there will be an entry which reads, Information; for in most cases, the...

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Jacques Cousteau: Man, of all...

Jacques Cousteau: Man, of all...

Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.

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Jacques Cousteau: To yackety-yak about...

Jacques Cousteau: To yackety-yak about...

To yackety-yak about the past is for me time lost. Every morning I wake up saying, 'I'm still alive -- a miracle.'...

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Pearl Buck: I am comforted...

Pearl Buck: I am comforted...

I am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place...

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Pearl Buck: Every great mistake...

Pearl Buck: Every great mistake...

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps...

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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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Alexis de Tocqueville: In a revolution,...

Alexis de Tocqueville: In a revolution,...

In a revolution, as in a novel. the most difficult part to invent is the end.

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Gail Pursell Elliott: As a society,...

Gail Pursell Elliott: As a society,...

As a society, we have come to a point where people too often treat one another as objects and opportunities, rather...

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Sandra Day O'Connor: It is difficult...

Sandra Day O'Connor: It is difficult...

It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful...

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