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Henry Miller: If we are...

Henry Miller: If we are...

If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a...

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Peter Abrahams: To get where...

Peter Abrahams: To get where...

To get where you want to go you can't only do what you like.

Source: Tell Freedom,...

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Nelson Algren: Literature is made...

Nelson Algren: Literature is made...

Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with...

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Mary Stewart: But I have...

Mary Stewart: But I have...

But I have noticed this about ambitious men, or men in power -- they fear even the slightest and least likely threat...

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James Thurber: Writers of comedy...

James Thurber: Writers of comedy...

Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them,...

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Henry David Thoreau: A broad margin...

Henry David Thoreau: A broad margin...

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book.

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Henry David Thoreau: That man is...

Henry David Thoreau: That man is...

That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.

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Henry David Thoreau: What does education...

Henry David Thoreau: What does education...

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

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Louis-Ferdinand Celine: The novel can't...

Louis-Ferdinand Celine: The novel can't...

The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed and tanked up on...

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George Gurdjieff: Without self knowledge,...

George Gurdjieff: Without self knowledge,...

Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot...

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Jane Harrison: To be meek,...

Jane Harrison: To be meek,...

To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be...

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Johnnetta Betsch Cole: The woman who...

Johnnetta Betsch Cole: The woman who...

The woman who bore me is no longer alive, but I seem to be her daughter in increasingly profound...

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Henry Louis Gates, Jr: Insofar as we,...

Henry Louis Gates, Jr: Insofar as we,...

Insofar as we, critics of the black tradition, master our craft, we serve both to preserve our own traditions and to...

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Warren Bennis: There is a...

Warren Bennis: There is a...

There is a profound difference between information and meaning.

Source: In The...

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William Stanley Braithwaite: I am glad...

William Stanley Braithwaite: I am glad...

I am glad daylong for the gift of song,
For time and change and sorrow;
For the sunset wings and the world-end...

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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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William Harvey: Ex ovo omnia.'...

William Harvey: Ex ovo omnia.'...

'Ex ovo omnia.' Everything from an egg.

Source: De generatione animalium,...

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Estelle Ramey: . ....

Estelle Ramey: . ....

. . . what is human and the same about the males and females classified as Homo sapiens is much greater than the...

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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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Antoine de Saint-Exupery: Neither intelligence nor...

Antoine de Saint-Exupery: Neither intelligence nor...

Neither intelligence nor judgment are creative. If a sculptor is nothing but science and intelligence his hands will...

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