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Jane Harrison: Marriage, for a...

Jane Harrison: Marriage, for a...

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and...

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Mark Hopkins: Religion without morality...

Mark Hopkins: Religion without morality...

Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is...

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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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Freda Adler: There is another...

Freda Adler: There is another...

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke...

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bell hooks: She wants to...

bell hooks: She wants to...

She wants to express herself -- to speak her mind. To them it is just talking back.

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Warren Bennis: Ineffective leaders often...

Warren Bennis: Ineffective leaders often...

Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.

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Miguel de Unamuno: Science is a...

Miguel de Unamuno: Science is a...

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

Source: The Tragic Sense of Life, 1913.
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Henry David Thoreau: What does education...

Henry David Thoreau: What does education...

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

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Lewis Carroll: That's the reason...

Lewis Carroll: That's the reason...

That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.

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George Borrow: It has been...

George Borrow: It has been...

It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt...

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George S Patton: One does not...

George S Patton: One does not...

One does not plan and then try to make circumstances fit the plans. One tries to make plans fit the...

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George S Patton: We herd sheep,...

George S Patton: We herd sheep,...

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

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Stonewall Jackson: Let us cross...

Stonewall Jackson: Let us cross...

Let us cross over the river and rest in the shade.

Source: His last words before...

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Karl von Clausewitz: In war the...

Karl von Clausewitz: In war the...

In war the will is directed at an animate object that reacts.

Source: In The Harper...

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Sun Tzu [Wu]: To fight and...

Sun Tzu [Wu]: To fight and...

To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the...

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Charles Simmons: Both mind and...

Charles Simmons: Both mind and...

Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of...

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William C Nell: I yield to...

William C Nell: I yield to...

I yield to no one in appreciating the propriety and pertinency of every effort, on the part of Colored Americans, in...

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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: By common consent...

George Bancroft: By common consent...

By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite...

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Theodore H White: The best time...

Theodore H White: The best time...

The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's...

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