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Gertrude Stein: Everybody gets so...

Gertrude Stein: Everybody gets so...

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

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Iris Murdoch: We live in...

Iris Murdoch: We live in...

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find...

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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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Sholom Aleichem: No matter how...

Sholom Aleichem: No matter how...

No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you.

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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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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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Friedrich Nietzsche: When one has...

Friedrich Nietzsche: When one has...

When one has much to put into them, a day has a hundred pockets.

Source: In The...

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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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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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Thomas ? Kempis: If you cannot...

Thomas ? Kempis: If you cannot...

If you cannot mould yourself as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your...

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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.

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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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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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Emile M Cioran: If we could...

Emile M Cioran: If we could...

If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.

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Mahatma Gandhi: Rights that do...

Mahatma Gandhi: Rights that do...

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

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Antoine de Saint-Exupery: In anything at...

Antoine de Saint-Exupery: In anything at...

In anything at all, perfection is finally attained, not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no...

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Shirley Jackson: It has long...

Shirley Jackson: It has long...

It has long been my belief that in times of great stress, such as a 4-day vacation, the thin veneer of family wears...

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Shirley Jackson: February, when the...

Shirley Jackson: February, when the...

February, when the days of winter seem endless and no amount of wistful recollecting can bring back any air of...

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Our mistake, you...

Our mistake, you...

Our mistake, you see, was to write interminable large operas, which had to fill an entire evening . . . And now along...

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You explain how...

You explain how...

You explain how it went, and as far as you can figure out how it got that way.

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