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Pearl Buck: Sometimes I would...

Pearl Buck: Sometimes I would...

Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than take away a...

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Pearl Buck: The young do...

Pearl Buck: The young do...

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible-and achieve it, generation after...

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Ralph Ellison: Good fiction is...

Ralph Ellison: Good fiction is...

Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.

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John LeCarre: Love is whatever...

John LeCarre: Love is whatever...

Love is whatever you can still betray ... Betrayal can only happen if you love.

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Anthony Powell: Parents. . ....

Anthony Powell: Parents. . ....

Parents. . . are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfil the promise of their early...

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Arthur Koestler: Creativity is a...

Arthur Koestler: Creativity is a...

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same...

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Margaret Drabble: Perhaps the rare...

Margaret Drabble: Perhaps the rare...

Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being...

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Kenneth MacKenzie Clark: Opera, next to...

Kenneth MacKenzie Clark: Opera, next to...

Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen...

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Carl Sagan: It Is of...

Carl Sagan: It Is of...

It Is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English -- up to 50 words used in...

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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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Benjamin Jowett: Young men make...

Benjamin Jowett: Young men make...

Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much.

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Jane Harrison: Old age, believe...

Jane Harrison: Old age, believe...

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you...

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Emma Hart Willard: The education of...

Emma Hart Willard: The education of...

The education of females has been exclusively directed to fit them for displaying to advantage the charms of youth and...

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Gilbert Highet: The mind never...

Gilbert Highet: The mind never...

The mind never need stop growing. One of the few experiences which never pall is the experience of watching one's own...

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Freda Adler: It is not...

Freda Adler: It is not...

It is not only by the questions we have answered that progress may be measured, but also by those we are still...

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Henry Louis Gates, Jr: I want to...

Henry Louis Gates, Jr: I want to...

I want to be black, to know black, to luxuriate in whatever I might be calling blackness at any particular time, but...

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bell hooks: She wants to...

bell hooks: She wants to...

She wants to express herself -- to speak her mind. To them it is just talking back.

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Warren Bennis: Ineffective leaders often...

Warren Bennis: Ineffective leaders often...

Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.

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Miguel de Unamuno: We never know,...

Miguel de Unamuno: We never know,...

We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Miguel de Unamuno: Science is a...

Miguel de Unamuno: Science is a...

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

Source: The Tragic Sense of Life, 1913.
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