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Robert Brustein: The primary function...

Robert Brustein: The primary function...

The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve...

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Mary Lyon: When you choose...

Mary Lyon: When you choose...

When you choose your fields of labor go where nobody else is willing to go.

Source:...

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Michel de Certeau: New York has...

Michel de Certeau: New York has...

New York has never learnt the art of growing old by playing on all its pasts. Its present invents itself, from hour to...

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Gilbert Highet: Many people have...

Gilbert Highet: Many people have...

Many people have played themselves to death. Many people have eaten and drunk themselves to death. Nobody ever thought...

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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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Konrad Adenauer: History is the...

Konrad Adenauer: History is the...

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.

Source: In...

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Henry David Thoreau: How rarely I...

Henry David Thoreau: How rarely I...

How rarely I meet with a man who can be free, even in thought! We all live according to rule. Some men are bedridden;...

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Manly Hall: Words are potent...

Manly Hall: Words are potent...

Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.

Source: In Wisdom of the Ages...

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Jean Jacques Rousseau: Do not judge,...

Jean Jacques Rousseau: Do not judge,...

Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Jean Jacques Rousseau: Take the course...

Jean Jacques Rousseau: Take the course...

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

Source: In...

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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.

Source:...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: The surest way...

Friedrich Nietzsche: The surest way...

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: Art is not...

Friedrich Nietzsche: Art is not...

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: A woman may...

Friedrich Nietzsche: A woman may...

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: Is not life...

Friedrich Nietzsche: Is not life...

Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Source: In Pearls...

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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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Robert Penn Warren: Poets, we know,...

Robert Penn Warren: Poets, we know,...

Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about...

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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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Robert Penn Warren: A young man's...

Robert Penn Warren: A young man's...

A young man's ambition [is] to get along in the world and make a place for himself half your life goes that way, till...

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Ivan Turgenev: Most people can't...

Ivan Turgenev: Most people can't...

Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.

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