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Plutarch: The mind is...

Plutarch: The mind is...

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be ignited.

Source: In The...

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Alain Locke: Art must discover...

Alain Locke: Art must discover...

Art must discover and reveal the beauty which prejudice and caricature have overlaid.

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Emile M Cioran: Consciousness is much...

Emile M Cioran: Consciousness is much...

Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.

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Charles Peguy: Everything begins in...

Charles Peguy: Everything begins in...

Everything begins in mysticism and ends in politics.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: One has to...

Friedrich Nietzsche: One has to...

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: Early in the...

Friedrich Nietzsche: Early in the...

Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book --I call that...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: After coming into...

Friedrich Nietzsche: After coming into...

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.

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Friedrich Nietzsche: Mathematics. . ....

Friedrich Nietzsche: Mathematics. . ....

Mathematics. . . would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: A great man...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: A great man...

A great man is always willing to be little.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Mahatma Gandhi: Capital as such...

Mahatma Gandhi: Capital as such...

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be...

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Robert Penn Warren: I think the...

Robert Penn Warren: I think the...

I think the greatest curse of American society has been the idea of an easy millennialism -- that some new drug, or...

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Nancy Astor: The penalty of...

Nancy Astor: The penalty of...

The penalty of success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.

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Mary Catherine Bateson: ...a disgruntled reflection...

Mary Catherine Bateson: ...a disgruntled reflection...

...a disgruntled reflection on my own life as a sort of desperate improvisation in which I was constantly trying to...

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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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Stephen Leacock: Golf may be...

Stephen Leacock: Golf may be...

Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral...

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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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Jane Harrison: Marriage, for a...

Jane Harrison: Marriage, for a...

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and...

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Mary Jean LeTendre: The challenge for...

Mary Jean LeTendre: The challenge for...

The challenge for the 21st century is to bring together parents, the early childhood community, and schools so that...

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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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Ralph Ellison: I am invisible,...

Ralph Ellison: I am invisible,...

I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

Source: The...

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