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Charles Buxton: To make pleasures...

Charles Buxton: To make pleasures...

To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them.

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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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Margaret Atwood: Sons branch out,...

Margaret Atwood: Sons branch out,...

Sons branch out, but one woman leads to another.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Joseph Goebbels: It is the...

Joseph Goebbels: It is the...

It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion.

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William Temple: The best rules...

William Temple: The best rules...

The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in...

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Denis Healey: The difference between...

Denis Healey: The difference between...

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.

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Joseph Marie De Maistre: To know how...

Joseph Marie De Maistre: To know how...

To know how to wait is the great secret of success.

Source: In Wisdom of the Ages...

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Antonio Gramsci: [A]fter puberty the...

Antonio Gramsci: [A]fter puberty the...

[A]fter puberty the personality develops impetuously and all extraneous intervention becomes odious. . . . Now it so...

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James B Conant: Every vital organization...

James B Conant: Every vital organization...

Every vital organization owes its birth and life to an exciting and daring idea.

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James B Conant: Some of mankind's...

James B Conant: Some of mankind's...

Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or...

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Grace Murray Hopper: Leadership is a...

Grace Murray Hopper: Leadership is a...

Leadership is a two-way street, loyalty up and loyalty down. Respect for one's superiors; care for one's...

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Charles Simmons: He who wants...

Charles Simmons: He who wants...

He who wants to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything. Life is made up of little things. True...

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Pearl Buck: Because psychologists have...

Pearl Buck: Because psychologists have...

Because psychologists have been able to discover, exactly as in a slow-motion picture, the way the human creature...

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Ralph Ellison: There must be...

Ralph Ellison: There must be...

There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the...

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Pliny the Elder: The lust of...

Pliny the Elder: The lust of...

The lust of avarice has so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they...

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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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Gail Pursell Elliott: We create our...

Gail Pursell Elliott: We create our...

We create our own destiny with our choices and decisions. We can base these decisions upon the awareness of our inner...

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Harry A Blackmun: We're all eccentrics....

Harry A Blackmun: We're all eccentrics....

We're all eccentrics. We're nine prima donnas.

Source: In Time, 6 Feb 1984.
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Charles Evans Hughes: Where there is...

Charles Evans Hughes: Where there is...

Where there is muck to be raked, it must be raked,and the public must know of it, that it may mete out...

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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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