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Colette: Sit down and...

Colette: Sit down and...

Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can...

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Louis L'Amour: No memory is...

Louis L'Amour: No memory is...

No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own...

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Al Bernstein: Beauty is in...

Al Bernstein: Beauty is in...

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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The old idea...

The old idea...

The old idea . . . of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense....

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Ben Stein: No one will...

Ben Stein: No one will...

No one will do it for you.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations Library,...

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Aesop: Thinking to get...

Aesop: Thinking to get...

Thinking to get at once all the gold that the goose could give, he killed it, and opened it only to find -...

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Harold Rosenberg: One of the...

Harold Rosenberg: One of the...

One of the grotesqueries of present-day American life is the amount of reasoning that goes into displaying the wisdom...

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Gloria Steinem: Power can be...

Gloria Steinem: Power can be...

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

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Clara McBride Hale: I'm not an...

Clara McBride Hale: I'm not an...

I'm not an American hero. I'm a person who loves children.

Source: In Words of...

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Anyone can do...

Anyone can do...

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the...

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Titus Maccius Plautus: One eye witness...

Titus Maccius Plautus: One eye witness...

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Dwight D Eisenhower: Dollars and guns...

Dwight D Eisenhower: Dollars and guns...

Dollars and guns are no substitutes for brains and will power.

Source: Radio...

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Mary Astell: Women are from...

Mary Astell: Women are from...

Women are from their very Infancy debarr'd those advantages [of education] with the want of which they are afterwards...

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Claudius: To do nothing...

Claudius: To do nothing...

To do nothing evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Harold Macmillan: No man should...

Harold Macmillan: No man should...

No man should ever lose sleep over public, affairs.

Source: Interview with Dick...

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Estelle Ramey: I don't mind...

Estelle Ramey: I don't mind...

I don't mind . . . the fun and games of being treated like a fragile flower. But as a physiologist working with the...

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Ivan Turgenev: Whatever man prays...

Ivan Turgenev: Whatever man prays...

Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself to this -- Great God, grant that twice two...

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Saul Steinberg: At a performance...

Saul Steinberg: At a performance...

At a performance of Pulcinella, Jean Hugo was sitting next to Picasso in Misia Sert's box. Suddenly, Picasso turned to...

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Harold Rosenberg: What better way...

Harold Rosenberg: What better way...

What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

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Harold Macmillan: It's no use...

Harold Macmillan: It's no use...

It's no use crying over spilt summits.

Source: On Soviet cancellation of summit...

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