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Paule Marshall: Once a great...

Paule Marshall: Once a great...

Once a great wrong has been done, it never dies. People speak the words of peace, but their hearts do not forgive....

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Grace Murray Hopper: If it's a...

Grace Murray Hopper: If it's a...

If it's a good idea . . . go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologize than it is to get...

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Horatio Nelson: When I came...

Horatio Nelson: When I came...

When I came to explain to them the 'Nelson Touch', it was like an electric shock. Some shed tears, all approved - 'It...

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Oliver Cromwell: No one rises...

Oliver Cromwell: No one rises...

No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.

Source: In Memoires,...

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Oliver Cromwell: Subtlety may deceive...

Oliver Cromwell: Subtlety may deceive...

Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.

Source: In Wisdom of the Ages at...

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Chiang Kai-Shek: We live in...

Chiang Kai-Shek: We live in...

We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past.

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George Sand: The trade of...

George Sand: The trade of...

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

Source: Letter,...

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Homer: And what he...

Homer: And what he...

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Source: In Wisdom of the Ages at Your...

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Ariel Durant: Education is the...

Ariel Durant: Education is the...

Education is the transmission of civilization.

Source: In Peter's Quotations, by...

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Aesop: Beware that you...

Aesop: Beware that you...

Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

Source:...

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Aesop: Slow and steady...

Aesop: Slow and steady...

Slow and steady wins the race.

Source: The Hare and the Tortoise.
-- Aesop, ( ...

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Pearl Buck: No one really...

Pearl Buck: No one really...

No one really understood music unless he was a scientist, her father had declared, and not just a scientist, either,...

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Dr Seuss: You make 'em,...

Dr Seuss: You make 'em,...

You make 'em, I amuse 'em.

Source: On children.
-- Dr Seuss, (Mar 2 1904-1991),...

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Titus Livy: Men are seldom...

Titus Livy: Men are seldom...

Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.

Source:...

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Publius Cornelius Tacitus: Old things are...

Publius Cornelius Tacitus: Old things are...

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Source: In Wisdom...

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James Truslow Adams: There are obviously...

James Truslow Adams: There are obviously...

There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to...

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A J P Taylor: He was what...

A J P Taylor: He was what...

He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those...

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A J P Taylor: A racing tipster...

A J P Taylor: A racing tipster...

A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his...

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A J P Taylor: We are apt...

A J P Taylor: We are apt...

We are apt to say that a foreign policy is successful only when the country, or at any rate the governing class, is...

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William C Nell: While I would...

William C Nell: While I would...

While I would not . . . detract from the credit justly due the men . . . . It was these mothers who accompanied me to...

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