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Amos Bronson Alcott: The true teacher...

Amos Bronson Alcott: The true teacher...

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their...

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Dale Carnegie: Remember, today is...

Dale Carnegie: Remember, today is...

Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

Source: In The...

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George Sand: The trade of...

George Sand: The trade of...

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

Source: Letter,...

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Aesop: Beware that you...

Aesop: Beware that you...

Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

Source:...

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A J P Taylor: We are apt...

A J P Taylor: We are apt...

We are apt to say that a foreign policy is successful only when the country, or at any rate the governing class, is...

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Henry Brooks Adams: Nothing in education...

Henry Brooks Adams: Nothing in education...

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert...

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Theodore H White: His passion has...

Theodore H White: His passion has...

His passion has aroused the best and the beast in man. And the beast waited for him in the...

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Jacob Bronowski: The hand is...

Jacob Bronowski: The hand is...

The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Jacob Bronowski: That series of...

Jacob Bronowski: That series of...

That series of inventions by which man from age to age has remade his environment is a different kind of evolution --...

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Anthony Powell: He fell in...

Anthony Powell: He fell in...

He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Selflove...

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Wilkie Collins: Peace rules the...

Wilkie Collins: Peace rules the...

Peace rules the day where reason rules the mind.

Source: In The Forbes Book of...

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Lois McMaster Bujold: If you want...

Lois McMaster Bujold: If you want...

If you want to catch something, running after it isn't always the best way.

Source:...

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Andre Malraux: Man is not...

Andre Malraux: Man is not...

Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.

Source: Attributed.
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Andre Malraux: Genius is not...

Andre Malraux: Genius is not...

Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with...

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Mary McCarthy: The suspense of...

Mary McCarthy: The suspense of...

The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will...

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Margaret Drabble: Why can't people...

Margaret Drabble: Why can't people...

Why can't people be both flexible and efficient?

Source: The Middle Ground,...

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Robert Nathan: A man's family...

Robert Nathan: A man's family...

A man's family sets him apart from all other living creatures. . . . Only man stands with his children from first to...

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Robert Penn Warren: How do poems...

Robert Penn Warren: How do poems...

How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.

Source: Poetry Is a Kind of...

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Ivan Turgenev: Nature is not...

Ivan Turgenev: Nature is not...

Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it.

Source:...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: A great man...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: A great man...

A great man is always willing to be little.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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