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Pythagoras: Rest satisfied with...

Pythagoras: Rest satisfied with...

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will.

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Rosalyn Sussman Yalow: I have long...

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow: I have long...

I have long felt that the trouble with discrimination is not discrimination per se, but rather that the people who are...

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Edmund Hillary: There is precious...

Edmund Hillary: There is precious...

There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a Yeti.

Source: In The...

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Frank Lloyd Wright: If it keeps...

Frank Lloyd Wright: If it keeps...

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

Source:...

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Auguste Renoir: You've got to...

Auguste Renoir: You've got to...

You've got to be a fool to want to stop the march of time.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Benito Mussolini: I should be...

Benito Mussolini: I should be...

I should be pleased, I suppose, that Hitler has carried out a revolution on our lines. But they are Germans. So they...

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Lisa Alther: That's the risk...

Lisa Alther: That's the risk...

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other...

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Jean Toomer: We start with...

Jean Toomer: We start with...

We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them.

Source: Definitions and...

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Milan Kundera: For a novelist,...

Milan Kundera: For a novelist,...

For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question:...

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Margaret Atwood: Gardening is not...

Margaret Atwood: Gardening is not...

Gardening is not a rational act.

Source: Bluebeard's Egg/ 1986
-- Margaret...

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Kingsley Amis: He was of...

Kingsley Amis: He was of...

He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was...

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Kingsley Amis: It scored right...

Kingsley Amis: It scored right...

It scored right away with me by being the smooth, fine-grained sort, not the coarse, flaky, dry-on-the-outside rubbish...

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Italo Calvino: The satirist is...

Italo Calvino: The satirist is...

The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is...

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Italo Calvino: The human race...

Italo Calvino: The human race...

The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr: We need education...

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr: We need education...

We need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.

Source: In...

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Byron R White: We're the only...

Byron R White: We're the only...

We're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time it makes a...

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Benjamin L Hooks: A good history...

Benjamin L Hooks: A good history...

A good history covers not only what was done, but the thought that went into the action. You can read the history of a...

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Louis Nizer: Yes, there's such...

Louis Nizer: Yes, there's such...

Yes, there's such a thing as luck in trial law but it only comes at 3 o'clock in the morning. . . . You'll still find...

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John Lubbock: Reading and writing,...

John Lubbock: Reading and writing,...

Reading and writing, arithmetic and grammar do not constitute education, any more than a knife, fork and spoon...

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William O Douglas: The association promotes...

William O Douglas: The association promotes...

The association promotes a way of life, not causes; a harmony in living, not political faiths; a bilateral loyalty,...

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