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Robert Penn Warren: Most writers are...

Robert Penn Warren: Most writers are...

Most writers are trying to find what they think or feel. . . . not simply working from the given, but toward the...

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Ivan Turgenev: If we wait...

Ivan Turgenev: If we wait...

If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never...

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Antonio Porchia: Certainties are arrived...

Antonio Porchia: Certainties are arrived...

Certainties are arrived at only on foot.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Mahatma Gandhi: What is a...

Mahatma Gandhi: What is a...

What is a man if he is not a thief who openly charges as much as he can for the goods he...

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Ruth Benedict: . ....

Ruth Benedict: . ....

. . . work even when I'm satisfied with it is never my child I love nor my servant I've brought to heel. It's always...

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Emily James Putnam: The selfishness that...

Emily James Putnam: The selfishness that...

The selfishness that a woman has learned to stifle or to dissemble where she alone is concerned, blooms freely and...

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Molefi Kete Asante: A wise person...

Molefi Kete Asante: A wise person...

A wise person speaks carefully and with truth, for every word that passes between one's teeth is meant for...

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Charlotte Forten Grimke: Ah, what a...

Charlotte Forten Grimke: Ah, what a...

Ah, what a grand, glorious day this has been. The dawn of freedom which it heralds may not break upon us at once; but...

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Frances Perkins: But with the...

Frances Perkins: But with the...

But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan...

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Robert Hayden: We must not...

Robert Hayden: We must not...

We must not be frightened nor cajoled
into accepting evil as deliverance from evil.
We must go on struggling to...

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William Stanley Braithwaite: Here is the...

William Stanley Braithwaite: Here is the...

Here is the earth resurgent with color and bloom of Spring,
Glorying the dream and the vision in the song you...

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R D Laing: In the society...

R D Laing: In the society...

In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities...

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Wayne Dyer: People who want...

Wayne Dyer: People who want...

People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the...

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George Gurdjieff: Humanity is moving...

George Gurdjieff: Humanity is moving...

Humanity is moving in a circle. The progress in mechanical things of the past hundred years has proceeded at the cost...

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Mary Catherine Bateson: Sharing is sometimes...

Mary Catherine Bateson: Sharing is sometimes...

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Source: In Words of Women...

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A P Herbert: The Englishman never...

A P Herbert: The Englishman never...

The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose.

Source: Mr. Justice...

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Arthur Koestler: The more original...

Arthur Koestler: The more original...

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

Source: In The...

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V S Naipaul: To read a...

V S Naipaul: To read a...

To read a newspaper for the first time is like coming into a film that has been on for an hour. Newspapers are like...

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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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