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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: Advertising may be...

Stephen Leacock: Advertising may be...

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from...

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Nicholas Butler: An expert is...

Nicholas Butler: An expert is...

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.

Source: Commencement...

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Mark Hopkins: No revolution that...

Mark Hopkins: No revolution that...

No revolution that has ever taken place in society can be compared to that which has been produced by the words of...

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Molefi Kete Asante: What could be...

Molefi Kete Asante: What could be...

What could be any more correct for any people than to see with their own eyes?

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Molefi Kete Asante: As a people,...

Molefi Kete Asante: As a people,...

As a people, our most cherished and valuable achievements are the achievements of spirit. With an Afrocentric spirit,...

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Nannie Burroughs: Don't wait for...

Nannie Burroughs: Don't wait for...

Don't wait for deliverers.... I like that quotation, Moses, my servant, is dead. Therefore, arise and go over Jordan....

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Arthur Schomburg: The fable of...

Arthur Schomburg: The fable of...

The fable of Aesop, the cherished and enjoyable book of our youth, was originally related as folk- lore by a Negro...

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Johnnetta Betsch Cole: These young women...

Johnnetta Betsch Cole: These young women...

These young women have had four years of very special space . . . . safe space. But when they graduate, they will...

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Freda Adler: The passionate controversies...

Freda Adler: The passionate controversies...

The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we...

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Freda Adler: That man is...

Freda Adler: That man is...

That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws...

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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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Miguel de Unamuno: Life is doubt,...

Miguel de Unamuno: Life is doubt,...

Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.

Source: Poesias.
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Peter De Vries: It is the...

Peter De Vries: It is the...

It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.

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Anthony Powell: People think that...

Anthony Powell: People think that...

People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs...

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Rumer Godden: Pax: peace, but...

Rumer Godden: Pax: peace, but...

Pax: peace, but what a strange peace, made of unremitting toil and effort, seldom with a seen result. ....

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Robert Nathan: Sorrow is a...

Robert Nathan: Sorrow is a...

Sorrow is a silence in the heart.

Source: A Cedar Box.
-- Robert Nathan, (Jan 2...

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J B S Haldane: We do not...

J B S Haldane: We do not...

We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But...

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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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Pliny the Elder: No one is...

Pliny the Elder: No one is...

No one is wise at all times.

Source: 'Natural History' [Emerson said it too:...

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