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Henry David Thoreau: The language of...

Henry David Thoreau: The language of...

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Henry Brooks Adams: Chaos often breeds...

Henry Brooks Adams: Chaos often breeds...

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

Source: The Education of Henry...

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George Bancroft: The prejudices of...

George Bancroft: The prejudices of...

The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly...

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George Bancroft: The exact measure...

George Bancroft: The exact measure...

The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has...

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Carter G Woodson: Truth comes to...

Carter G Woodson: Truth comes to...

Truth comes to us from the past, then, like gold washed down from the mountains.

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Benjamin L Hooks: The most enduring...

Benjamin L Hooks: The most enduring...

The most enduring contributions made to civilization have not been made by brawn, they have been made by...

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Charles Montesquieu: If one only...

Charles Montesquieu: If one only...

If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and...

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Etty Hillesum: Sometimes the most...

Etty Hillesum: Sometimes the most...

Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards...

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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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Pearl Buck: Be born anywhere,...

Pearl Buck: Be born anywhere,...

Be born anywhere, little embryo novelist, but do not be born under the shadow of a great creed, not under the burden...

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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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George Steiner: To shoot a...

George Steiner: To shoot a...

To shoot a man because one disagrees with his interpretation of Darwin or Hegel is a sinister tribute to the supremacy...

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Omar Bradley: Our technology has...

Omar Bradley: Our technology has...

Our technology has already outstripped our ability to control it.

Source: In The...

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Lewis Carroll: I'm very brave...

Lewis Carroll: I'm very brave...

I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a...

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Sarah Orne Jewett: In the life...

Sarah Orne Jewett: In the life...

In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or...

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Ariel Durant: The conservative who...

Ariel Durant: The conservative who...

The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.

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Margot Asquith: No one ever...

Margot Asquith: No one ever...

No one ever pruned me. If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days,...

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Margot Asquith: His modesty amounts...

Margot Asquith: His modesty amounts...

His modesty amounts to deformity.

Source: Referring to her husband. As I...

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Margot Asquith: To marry a...

Margot Asquith: To marry a...

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had...

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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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