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G K Chesterton: The Christian ideal...

G K Chesterton: The Christian ideal...

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left...

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Agatha Christie: I didn't want...

Agatha Christie: I didn't want...

I didn't want to work. It was as simple as that. I distrusted work, disliked it. I thought it was a very bad thing...

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Naomi Weisstein: When we hear...

Naomi Weisstein: When we hear...

When we hear jokes against women, and we are asked why we don't laugh at them, the answer is easy, simple, and short....

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Gail Pursell Elliott: What we notice...

Gail Pursell Elliott: What we notice...

What we notice is what resonates with our inner perspective. We tend to overlook what does not connect with our...

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Thurgood Marshall: Today's Constitution is...

Thurgood Marshall: Today's Constitution is...

Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those...

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Arnold (Joseph) Toynbee: The right moment...

Arnold (Joseph) Toynbee: The right moment...

The right moment for starting on your next job is not tomorrow or next week; it is instanter, or in the American...

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Theodore H White: He who is...

Theodore H White: He who is...

He who is created by television can be destroyed by television.

Source: Television...

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Theodore H White: With electricity we...

Theodore H White: With electricity we...

With electricity we were wired into a new world, for electricity brought the radio, a crystal set [and] with enough...

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Sarah Orne Jewett: The road was...

Sarah Orne Jewett: The road was...

The road was new to me, as roads always are, going back.

Source: The Country of the...

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Ariel Durant: One of the...

Ariel Durant: One of the...

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to...

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Jiddu Krishnamurti: If we can...

Jiddu Krishnamurti: If we can...

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the...

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Robert Penn Warren: What is a...

Robert Penn Warren: What is a...

What is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding? It is the deepest part of...

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Ivan Turgenev: Nature is not...

Ivan Turgenev: Nature is not...

Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it.

Source:...

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Cynthia Ozick: To imagine the...

Cynthia Ozick: To imagine the...

To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination.

Source: In Words...

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Joseph Hall: I first adventure,...

Joseph Hall: I first adventure,...

I first adventure, follow me who list
And be the second English satirist.


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Jean Jacques Rousseau: General and abstract...

Jean Jacques Rousseau: General and abstract...

General and abstract ideas are the source of the greatest errors of mankind.

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Emile M Cioran: Imaginary pains are...

Emile M Cioran: Imaginary pains are...

Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because...

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Emile M Cioran: Criticism is a...

Emile M Cioran: Criticism is a...

Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: When one has...

Friedrich Nietzsche: When one has...

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: A child is...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: A child is...

A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.

Source: In Correct Quotes for DOS, WordStar...

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