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Such is the...

Such is the...

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when...

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While the right...

While the right...

While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes that right...

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Follow what you...

Follow what you...

Follow what you love! . . . Don't deign to ask what they are looking for out there. Ask what you have inside. Follow...

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Elephants and grandchildren...

Elephants and grandchildren...

Elephants and grandchildren never forget.

Source: Tribune Media Services.
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Implicitly adopting the...

Implicitly adopting the...

Implicitly adopting the male life as the norm, they have tried to fashion women out of a masculine cloth. It all goes...

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The Act of...

The Act of...

The Act of God designation on all insurance policies; which means, roughly, that you cannot be insured for the...

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APOSTATE, n. A...

APOSTATE, n. A...

APOSTATE, n. A leech who, having penetrated the shell of a turtle only to find that the creature has long been dead,...

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Youth is like...

Youth is like...

Youth is like spring, an over-praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the...

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Emily James Putnam: In contemporary society...

Emily James Putnam: In contemporary society...

In contemporary society [the typical lady] is an archaism, and can't hardly understand herself unless she knows her...

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James McNeill Whistler: If the man...

James McNeill Whistler: If the man...

If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king of...

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Determination is the...

Determination is the...

Determination is the wake-up call to the human will.

Source: In

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Rachel Carson: For the sense...

Rachel Carson: For the sense...

For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that we use it...

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Drawing on my...

Drawing on my...

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.

Source: Chips off the Old...

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Michel de Certeau: As a first...

Michel de Certeau: As a first...

As a first approximation, I define belief not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the...

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. . . people will sometimes say, Why don't you write more politics? And I have to explain to them that writing the...

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A critic is...

A critic is...

A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.

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Peter Nivio Zarlenga: What is a...

Peter Nivio Zarlenga: What is a...

What is a lie? It is to say what is real is not real. It is to deny the existence of what...

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Vladimir Mayakovsky: Art is not...

Vladimir Mayakovsky: Art is not...

Art is not a mirror to reflect the world, but a hammer with which to shape it.

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Original thought is...

Original thought is...

Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly...

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Being slightly paranoid...

Being slightly paranoid...

Being slightly paranoid is like being slightly pregnant -- it tends to get worse.

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