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William Harvey: Ex ovo omnia.'...

William Harvey: Ex ovo omnia.'...

'Ex ovo omnia.' Everything from an egg.

Source: De generatione animalium,...

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Thomas Browne: The world, which...

Thomas Browne: The world, which...

The world, which took six days to make, is likely to take us six thousand years to make...

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Horace Mann: Be ashamed to...

Horace Mann: Be ashamed to...

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

Source:...

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Mordecai Wyatt Johnson: There will be...

Mordecai Wyatt Johnson: There will be...

There will be a meeting of the great powers who will disagree, and the next noise we hear will be the screeching of...

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Sigmund Freud: Knowledge is the...

Sigmund Freud: Knowledge is the...

Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.

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Joanna Field: I used to...

Joanna Field: I used to...

I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

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George Gurdjieff: A man is...

George Gurdjieff: A man is...

A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an...

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Georges Clemenceau: When a man...

Georges Clemenceau: When a man...

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action.

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Alice Walker: Expect nothing. Live...

Alice Walker: Expect nothing. Live...

Expect nothing. Live frugally
On surprise.


Source: Expect Nothing, Revolutionary...

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Carolyn Wells: The books we...

Carolyn Wells: The books we...

The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry;
The books that we would like to read we are ashamed to...

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Milan Kundera: The basis of...

Milan Kundera: The basis of...

The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be...

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Kingsley Amis: A dusty thudding...

Kingsley Amis: A dusty thudding...

A dusty thudding in his head made the scene before him beat like a pulse. His mouth had been used as a latrine by some...

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Nora Ephron: I am continually...

Nora Ephron: I am continually...

I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from...

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky: The cleverest of...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky: The cleverest of...

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a...

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Salman Rushdie: I used to...

Salman Rushdie: I used to...

I used to say: there is a God-shaped hole in me. For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is...

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Anthony Powell: He fell in...

Anthony Powell: He fell in...

He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Selflove...

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Taylor Caldwell: Learning . ....

Taylor Caldwell: Learning . ....

Learning . . . should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion...

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Artemus Ward: It ain't so...

Artemus Ward: It ain't so...

It ain't so much what people don't know that hurts as what they know that ain't so.

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Artemus Ward: Let us all...

Artemus Ward: Let us all...

Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it...

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Richard Bach: You are never...

Richard Bach: You are never...

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it,...

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