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Epictetus: He who exercises...

Epictetus: He who exercises...

He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

Source: In The...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: Every extension of...

Friedrich Nietzsche: Every extension of...

Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious.

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Friedrich Nietzsche: Let us beware...

Friedrich Nietzsche: Let us beware...

Let us beware of saying there are laws in nature. There are only necessities: there is no one to command, no one to...

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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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Guillaume Apollinaire: Without poets, without...

Guillaume Apollinaire: Without poets, without...

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe...

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Rumer Godden: Pax: peace, but...

Rumer Godden: Pax: peace, but...

Pax: peace, but what a strange peace, made of unremitting toil and effort, seldom with a seen result. ....

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Lois McMaster Bujold: You don't pay...

Lois McMaster Bujold: You don't pay...

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in...

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Linus Pauling: Man's great power...

Linus Pauling: Man's great power...

Man's great power of thinking, remembering, and communicating are responsible for the evolution of...

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Benjamin Jowett: Young men make...

Benjamin Jowett: Young men make...

Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much.

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Jane Harrison: To be womanly...

Jane Harrison: To be womanly...

To be womanly is one thing, and one only; it is to be sensitive to man, to be highly endowed with the sex instinct; to...

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Christopher Lasch: It is a...

Christopher Lasch: It is a...

It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times --the...

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Diane Ravitch: The greatest obstacle...

Diane Ravitch: The greatest obstacle...

The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.

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Diane Ravitch: Most people believe...

Diane Ravitch: Most people believe...

Most people believe that schools were good enough when they were children and that they are good enough now. But the...

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Nannie Burroughs: To struggle and...

Nannie Burroughs: To struggle and...

To struggle and battle and overcome and absolutely defeat every force designed against us is the only way to...

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Freda Adler: That man is...

Freda Adler: That man is...

That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws...

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Hippocrates: Everything in excess...

Hippocrates: Everything in excess...

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Benjamin Rush: Our authors and...

Benjamin Rush: Our authors and...

Our authors and scholars are generally men of business, and make their literary pursuits subservient to their...

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Henry David Thoreau: Every man is...

Henry David Thoreau: Every man is...

Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can...

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Mary Catherine Bateson: The Christian tradition...

Mary Catherine Bateson: The Christian tradition...

The Christian tradition was passed on to me as a great rich mixture, a bouillabaisse of human imagination and wonder...

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Stephen Leacock: Humor may be...

Stephen Leacock: Humor may be...

Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression...

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