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Ralph Ellison: I'm not a...

Ralph Ellison: I'm not a...

I'm not a separatist. The imagination is integrative. That's how you make the new -- by putting something else with...

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Ralph Ellison: I am invisible,...

Ralph Ellison: I am invisible,...

I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

Source: The...

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Sholom Aleichem: A bachelor is...

Sholom Aleichem: A bachelor is...

A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction.

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Sholom Aleichem: Gossip is nature's...

Sholom Aleichem: Gossip is nature's...

Gossip is nature's telephone.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Margot Asquith: He has a...

Margot Asquith: He has a...

He has a brilliant mind until he makes it up.

Source: Referring to Sir Stafford...

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Theodore H White: It was like...

Theodore H White: It was like...

It was like walking through a field playing a brass tuba the day it rained gold. Everything was sitting around waiting...

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Paule Marshall: Sometimes a person...

Paule Marshall: Sometimes a person...

Sometimes a person has to go back, really back -- to have a sense, an understanding of all that's gone to make them --...

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John Dewey: The end justifies...

John Dewey: The end justifies...

The end justifies the means only when the means used are such as actually bring about the desired and desirable...

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Desiderius Erasmus: The fox has...

Desiderius Erasmus: The fox has...

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

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William O Douglas: Common sense often...

William O Douglas: Common sense often...

Common sense often makes good law.

Source: In court ruling, 25 Mar 1957.
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Christa McAuliffe: What are we...

Christa McAuliffe: What are we...

What are we doing here? We're reaching for the stars.

Source: In Time, 10 Feb...

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Barbara De Angelis: We need to...

Barbara De Angelis: We need to...

We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover...

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Dale Carnegie: Remember happiness doesn't...

Dale Carnegie: Remember happiness doesn't...

Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what you...

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Pearl Buck: No one really...

Pearl Buck: No one really...

No one really understood music unless he was a scientist, her father had declared, and not just a scientist, either,...

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William Blackstone: Time whereof the...

William Blackstone: Time whereof the...

Time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary.

Source: Commentaries on...

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Byron R White: When the whistle...

Byron R White: When the whistle...

When the whistle blows you have only a limited amount of time to do what you have to do. You either do it then or you...

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Clarence Darrow: Laws should be...

Clarence Darrow: Laws should be...

Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they serve.

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Mary Catherine Bateson: ...a disgruntled reflection...

Mary Catherine Bateson: ...a disgruntled reflection...

...a disgruntled reflection on my own life as a sort of desperate improvisation in which I was constantly trying to...

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Gerald Jampolsky: It's not the...

Gerald Jampolsky: It's not the...

It's not the situation that's causing your stress, it's your thoughts, and you can change that right here and now. You...

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Stephen Leacock: The classics are...

Stephen Leacock: The classics are...

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong in the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music...

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