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Margaret Drabble: The middle years,...

Margaret Drabble: The middle years,...

The middle years, caught between children and parents, free of neither: the past stretches back too densely, it is too...

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Margaret Drabble: The human mind...

Margaret Drabble: The human mind...

The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.

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Why doesn't the...

Why doesn't the...

Why doesn't the fellow who says, I'm no speechmaker let it go at that instead of giving a...

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Destiny has two...

Destiny has two...

Destiny has two ways of crushing us -- by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

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Gertrude Stein: But then of...

Gertrude Stein: But then of...

But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.

Source: Quoted...

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Jean Racine: Oh, I have...

Jean Racine: Oh, I have...

Oh, I have loved him too much to feel no hate for him. (Ah! je l'ai trop aim? pour ne le point...

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Barbara De Angelis: The more connections...

Barbara De Angelis: The more connections...

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and...

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Warren Bennis: Ineffective leaders often...

Warren Bennis: Ineffective leaders often...

Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.

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Hans Selye: Every stress leaves...

Hans Selye: Every stress leaves...

Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming...

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George Farquhar: Captain is a...

George Farquhar: Captain is a...

Captain is a good travelling name and so I take it.

Source: The Beaux' Stratagem,...

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Bill Clinton: If we disagree...

Bill Clinton: If we disagree...

If we disagree and I think I'm right, I just go ahead and do what I think is right. And then she tells me, 'I told...

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Robert Fulghum: All I really...

Robert Fulghum: All I really...

All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Remember the...

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Phillips Brooks: It is while...

Phillips Brooks: It is while...

It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of...

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Great music is...

Great music is...

Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never...

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Timothy Leary: In the information...

Timothy Leary: In the information...

In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were...

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Phillips Brooks: The best advisors...

Phillips Brooks: The best advisors...

The best advisors . . . give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even...

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Taylor Caldwell: He that hath...

Taylor Caldwell: He that hath...

He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down and without...

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The greater the...

The greater the...

The greater the risk, usually the worse the idea.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Some people pay...

Some people pay...

Some people pay a compliment as if they expected a receipt.

Source: In Quote Disk...

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Frances Perkins: Being a woman...

Frances Perkins: Being a woman...

Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.

Source: In The Last Word - A...

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