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Plato: Beauty of style...

Plato: Beauty of style...

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.

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Plutarch: Rest is the...

Plutarch: Rest is the...

Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.

Source: In The Book of Success, ed. Richard Shea,...

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Alain Locke: Art must discover...

Alain Locke: Art must discover...

Art must discover and reveal the beauty which prejudice and caricature have overlaid.

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Emile M Cioran: All that shimmers...

Emile M Cioran: All that shimmers...

All that shimmers on the surface of the world, all that we call interesting, is the fruit of ignorance and...

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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.

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Emile M Cioran: No one can...

Emile M Cioran: No one can...

No one can keep his grieves in their prime; they use themselves up.

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Emile M Cioran: If we could...

Emile M Cioran: If we could...

If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.

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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: You are not...

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: You are not...

You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human...

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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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Phillips Brooks: A man who...

Phillips Brooks: A man who...

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his...

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Epictetus: First say to...

Epictetus: First say to...

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

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Epictetus: The greater the...

Epictetus: The greater the...

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and...

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Stephen Leacock: Life, we learn...

Stephen Leacock: Life, we learn...

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

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Meister Eckhart: There is no...

Meister Eckhart: There is no...

There is no stopping place in this life -- nor is there ever one for any man, no matter how far along his way he's...

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Joan L Curcio: Jump into the...

Joan L Curcio: Jump into the...

Jump into the middle of things,
get your hands dirty,
fall flat on your face,
and then reach for the...

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Johnnetta Betsch Cole: If folks can...

Johnnetta Betsch Cole: If folks can...

If folks can learn to be racist, then they can learn to be anti racist. If being sexist ain't genetic, then, dad gum,...

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Johnnetta Betsch Cole: [W]hen we were...

Johnnetta Betsch Cole: [W]hen we were...

[W]hen we were little girls sitting between those knees that served like locks, when they came with that brush or...

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Henry Louis Gates, Jr: The act of...

Henry Louis Gates, Jr: The act of...

The act of writing for the slave constituted the act of creating a public, historical self, not only the self of the...

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Henry Louis Gates, Jr: Insofar as we,...

Henry Louis Gates, Jr: Insofar as we,...

Insofar as we, critics of the black tradition, master our craft, we serve both to preserve our own traditions and to...

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Charlotte Forten Grimke: Provoking, isn't it?...

Charlotte Forten Grimke: Provoking, isn't it?...

Provoking, isn't it? that when one is most in need of sensible words, one finds them not.

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