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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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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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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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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: Only the hand...

Meister Eckhart: Only the hand...

Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.

Source: In Quotations of Wit...

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Meister Eckhart: The knower and...

Meister Eckhart: The knower and...

The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here....

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Emily James Putnam: Until changing economic...

Emily James Putnam: Until changing economic...

Until changing economic conditions made the thing actually happen, struggling early society would hardly have guessed...

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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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Miguel de Unamuno: We need God,...

Miguel de Unamuno: We need God,...

We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a...

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Robert Hayden: . . ....

Robert Hayden: . . ....

. . . voyage through death
to life upon these shores.


Source: Middle...

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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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Lewis Carroll: One can't believe...

Lewis Carroll: One can't believe...

One can't believe impossible things.
I daresay you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age,...

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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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Robert Penn Warren: The poem ....

Robert Penn Warren: The poem ....

The poem . . . is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing...

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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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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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Charles Kingsley: He was one...

Charles Kingsley: He was one...

He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use...

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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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