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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: Everything can change,...

Italo Calvino: Everything can change,...

Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's...

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Mark Twain: A man cannot...

Mark Twain: A man cannot...

A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Shirley Jackson: It is only...

Shirley Jackson: It is only...

It is only with the eyes open that a corporeal form returns, and assembles itself firmly around the hard core of...

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Carl Sagan: It is the...

Carl Sagan: It is the...

It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of...

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Stephen Leacock: The Lord said...

Stephen Leacock: The Lord said...

The Lord said 'let there be wheat' and Saskatchewan was born.

Source: In The...

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Linus Pauling: The best way...

Linus Pauling: The best way...

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Source: In Leadership:...

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Mary Lyon: Nine-tenths of our...

Mary Lyon: Nine-tenths of our...

Nine-tenths of our suffering is caused by others not thinking so much of us as we think they...

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Diane Ravitch: The greatest obstacle...

Diane Ravitch: The greatest obstacle...

The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.

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Gilbert Highet: These are not...

Gilbert Highet: These are not...

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own...

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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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Anthony Powell: Few persons who...

Anthony Powell: Few persons who...

Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going...

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Michael Crichton: In the information...

Michael Crichton: In the information...

In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish...

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Lois McMaster Bujold: If you want...

Lois McMaster Bujold: If you want...

If you want to catch something, running after it isn't always the best way.

Source:...

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John LeCarre: A committee is...

John LeCarre: A committee is...

A committee is an animal with four back legs.

Source: Smiley, in Tinker, Tailor,...

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The car has...

The car has...

The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad and incomplete in the urban...

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Cheerfulness in most...

Cheerfulness in most...

Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous...

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How can they...

How can they...

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than 60 years got enough to eat and escaped being...

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Don't let young...

Don't let young...

Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.

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I think success...

I think success...

I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.

Source:...

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