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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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Richard Francis Burton: As threshing separates...

Richard Francis Burton: As threshing separates...

As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.

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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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Potter Stewart: Newspapers, television networks,...

Potter Stewart: Newspapers, television networks,...

Newspapers, television networks, and magazines have sometimes been outrageously abusive, untruthful, arrogant, and...

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Clarence Thomas: The truth of...

Clarence Thomas: The truth of...

The truth of the matter is we have become more interested in designer jeans and break dancing than we are in...

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William O Douglas: The search for...

William O Douglas: The search for...

The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved...

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Ken Kesey: You can't really...

Ken Kesey: You can't really...

You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things.

Source: One Flew...

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Salman Rushdie: The only privilege...

Salman Rushdie: The only privilege...

The only privilege literature deserves -- and this privilege it requires in order to exist -- is the privilege of...

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George Eliot: When death, the...

George Eliot: When death, the...

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our...

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Elie Wiesel: Writing is not...

Elie Wiesel: Writing is not...

Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more...

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Lisa Alther: . . ....

Lisa Alther: . . ....

. . . inspiration never arrived when you were searching for it.

Source: In Words of...

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Guillaume Apollinaire: To insist on...

Guillaume Apollinaire: To insist on...

To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality.

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Stephen Leacock: It may be...

Stephen Leacock: It may be...

It may be those who do most, dream most.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Henry David Thoreau: Superfluous wealth can...

Henry David Thoreau: Superfluous wealth can...

Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the...

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Henry David Thoreau: How many a...

Henry David Thoreau: How many a...

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that...

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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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William A Ward: Wise are those...

William A Ward: Wise are those...

Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top...

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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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Nannie Burroughs: To struggle and...

Nannie Burroughs: To struggle and...

To struggle and battle and overcome and absolutely defeat every force designed against us is the only way to...

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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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