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Grandma Moses: What a strange...

Grandma Moses: What a strange...

What a strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, the other forward; one is of today, the other of...

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M C Escher: I have often...

M C Escher: I have often...

I have often felt closer to people who work scientifically (though I certainly do not do so myself) than to my fellow...

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Corita Kent: There are so...

Corita Kent: There are so...

There are so many hungry people that God cannot appear to them except in the form of...

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Ansel Adams: [I]f photography were...

Ansel Adams: [I]f photography were...

[I]f photography were difficult in the true sense . . . that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much...

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G C Lichtenberg: What is the...

G C Lichtenberg: What is the...

What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but...

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Warren Buffett: Someone's sitting in...

Warren Buffett: Someone's sitting in...

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

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Robert Townsend: True leadership must...

Robert Townsend: True leadership must...

True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers not the enrichment of the...

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John Wanamaker: I know half...

John Wanamaker: I know half...

I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, but I can never find out which...

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Harold S Geneen: Facts from paper...

Harold S Geneen: Facts from paper...

Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as...

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Zig Ziglar: An optimist is...

Zig Ziglar: An optimist is...

An optimist is someone who goes after Moby Dick in a rowboat and takes the tartar sauce with...

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Mary Kay Ash: There are two...

Mary Kay Ash: There are two...

There are two things people want more than sex and money -- recognition and praise.

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Jules Renard: A cold in...

Jules Renard: A cold in...

A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Ann (and Jane) Taylor: How pleasant it...

Ann (and Jane) Taylor: How pleasant it...

How pleasant it is, at the end of the day,
No follies to have to repent;
But reflect on the past, and be able to...

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Nicolas Boileau: Whatever we well...

Nicolas Boileau: Whatever we well...

Whatever we well understand we express clearly, and words flow with ease.

Source:...

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Paul Verlaine: And everything else...

Paul Verlaine: And everything else...

And everything else is just literature

Source: [Et tout le reste est litt?rature];...

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Edmund Spenser: The poets' scrolls...

Edmund Spenser: The poets' scrolls...

The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by...

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Paul Verlaine: Tears fall in...

Paul Verlaine: Tears fall in...

Tears fall in my heart like the rain on the town.

Source: [Il pleure dans mon c ur/...

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Moli?re: The less we...

Moli?re: The less we...

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Zora Neale Hurston: I am not...

Zora Neale Hurston: I am not...

I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind...

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Zora Neale Hurston: People can be...

Zora Neale Hurston: People can be...

People can be slave-ships in shoes.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for...

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