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Grace Murray Hopper: If you do...

Grace Murray Hopper: If you do...

If you do something once, people will call it an accident. If you do it twice, they call it a coincidence. But do it a...

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: If the study...

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: If the study...

If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections, and to destroy your taste for those...

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Margot Asquith: The spirit of...

Margot Asquith: The spirit of...

The spirit of man is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.

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Henry Jackson Vandyke, Jr: Jazz: Music invented...

Henry Jackson Vandyke, Jr: Jazz: Music invented...

Jazz: Music invented by demons for the torture of imbeciles.

Source: In The...

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Robert Penn Warren: What is a...

Robert Penn Warren: What is a...

What is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding? It is the deepest part of...

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Theodor W Adorno: Art is permitted...

Theodor W Adorno: Art is permitted...

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent...

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Jiddu Krishnamurti: There is no...

Jiddu Krishnamurti: There is no...

There is no need to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The...

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Plutarch: Rest is the...

Plutarch: Rest is the...

Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.

Source: In The Book of Success, ed. Richard Shea,...

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Gotthold Lessing: What education is...

Gotthold Lessing: What education is...

What education is to the individual, revelation is to the whole human race.

Source:...

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Jean Jacques Rousseau: He who is...

Jean Jacques Rousseau: He who is...

He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it.

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Jean Jacques Rousseau: The thirst after...

Jean Jacques Rousseau: The thirst after...

The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.

Source: In...

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Emile Chartier: Doubt is not...

Emile Chartier: Doubt is not...

Doubt is not below knowledge, but above it.

Source: In 21st Century Dictionary of...

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Charles Peguy: Short of genius,...

Charles Peguy: Short of genius,...

Short of genius, a rich man cannot imagine poverty.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: We do not...

Friedrich Nietzsche: We do not...

We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: When one does...

Friedrich Nietzsche: When one does...

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Common sense is...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Common sense is...

Common sense is the wick of the candle.

Source: Journals, 1845.
-- Ralph Waldo...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: A child is...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: A child is...

A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.

Source: In Correct Quotes for DOS, WordStar...

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Joseph Roux: It is a...

Joseph Roux: It is a...

It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.

Source:...

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Bobby Fischer: The old chess...

Bobby Fischer: The old chess...

The old chess is too limited. Imagine playing cards, black jack for example, and every time the dealer has the same...

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John Hope: Rise, Brothers! Come...

John Hope: Rise, Brothers! Come...

Rise, Brothers! Come let us possess this land. Never say: Let well enough alone . . . Be discontented. Be...

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