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Etty Hillesum: One must also...

Etty Hillesum: One must also...

One must also accept that one has uncreative moments. The more honestly one can accept that, the quicker these moments...

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Etty Hillesum: I do believe...

Etty Hillesum: I do believe...

I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one's...

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Northrop Frye: The most technologically...

Northrop Frye: The most technologically...

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.

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Henry David Thoreau: Knowledge does not...

Henry David Thoreau: Knowledge does not...

Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

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Titus Livy: Men are least...

Titus Livy: Men are least...

Men are least safe from what success induces them not to fear.

Source: In The...

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James Truslow Adams: We cannot advance...

James Truslow Adams: We cannot advance...

We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day...

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William Manchester: Abruptly the poker...

William Manchester: Abruptly the poker...

Abruptly the poker of memory stirs the ashes of recollection and uncovers a forgotten ember, still smoldering down...

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A J P Taylor: A racing tipster...

A J P Taylor: A racing tipster...

A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his...

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Theodore H White: Generally students are...

Theodore H White: Generally students are...

Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and...

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Henry Brooks Adams: It is always...

Henry Brooks Adams: It is always...

It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.

Source: Comment on Robert...

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Jacob Bronowski: It doesn't matter...

Jacob Bronowski: It doesn't matter...

It doesn't matter whether you're talking about bombs or the intelligence quotients of one race as against another if a...

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Artemus Ward: When a fellow...

Artemus Ward: When a fellow...

When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money.

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Anais Nin: We do not...

Anais Nin: We do not...

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow...

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Ayn Rand: He liked to...

Ayn Rand: He liked to...

He liked to observe emotions; they were like red lanterns strung along the dark unknown of another's personality,...

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George Sand: He who draws...

George Sand: He who draws...

He who draws noble delights from the sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all...

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Homer: Wise to resolve,...

Homer: Wise to resolve,...

Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.

Source: In Wisdom of the Ages at Your...

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Charles Buxton: The rule in...

Charles Buxton: The rule in...

The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a...

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John Mortimer: The worst fault...

John Mortimer: The worst fault...

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life,...

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Milan Kundera: Let us consider...

Milan Kundera: Let us consider...

Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.

Source: On...

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Milan Kundera: The only reason...

Milan Kundera: The only reason...

The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.

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