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William Jennings Bryan: There is no...

William Jennings Bryan: There is no...

There is no more reason to believe that man descended from some inferior animal than there is to believe that a...

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Van Wyck Brooks: Longfellow is to...

Van Wyck Brooks: Longfellow is to...

Longfellow is to poetry what the barrel-organ is to music.

Source: The Flowering of...

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J B S Haldane: I am quite...

J B S Haldane: I am quite...

I am quite sure that our views on evolution would be very different had biologists studied genetics and natural...

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J B S Haldane: I have come...

J B S Haldane: I have come...

I have come to the conclusion that my subjective account of my motivation is largely mythical on almost all occasions....

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Pearl Buck: Order is the...

Pearl Buck: Order is the...

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Konrad Lorenz: It is a...

Konrad Lorenz: It is a...

It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It...

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James A Froude: Instruction does not...

James A Froude: Instruction does not...

Instruction does not prevent waster of time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of...

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Edward Gibbon: We improve ourselves...

Edward Gibbon: We improve ourselves...

We improve ourselves by victories over ourself. There must be contests, and we must win.

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James Truslow Adams: There are obviously...

James Truslow Adams: There are obviously...

There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to...

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Theodore H White: When that book...

Theodore H White: When that book...

When that book came out, it was like Columbus telling about America at the court of Ferdinand and...

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Theodore H White: When the bus...

Theodore H White: When the bus...

When the bus or the plane rolled or flew through the night, they sang songs of their own composition about Mr Nixon...

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Theodore H White: Whether a man...

Theodore H White: Whether a man...

Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it;...

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Henry Brooks Adams: One friend in...

Henry Brooks Adams: One friend in...

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of...

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Cleveland Amory: A good family,...

Cleveland Amory: A good family,...

A good family, it seems, is one that used to be better.

Source: Who Killed...

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Joseph Heller: Success and failure...

Joseph Heller: Success and failure...

Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying,...

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Harper Lee: I do much...

Harper Lee: I do much...

I do much of my creative thinking while golfing. If people know you're working at home they think nothing of walking...

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Lisa Alther: What a surprise...

Lisa Alther: What a surprise...

What a surprise to find you could shift the contents of your head like rearranging furniture in a...

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E L Doctorow: Writing is an...

E L Doctorow: Writing is an...

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

Source: In...

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Nora Ephron: I always read...

Nora Ephron: I always read...

I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned...

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Charles Kingsley: The world goes...

Charles Kingsley: The world goes...

The world goes up and the world goes down,
And the sunshine follows the rain;
And yesterday's sneer and...

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