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Arthur Koestler: True creativity often...

Arthur Koestler: True creativity often...

True creativity often starts where language ends.

Source: The act of Creation, bk....

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Publius Cornelius Tacitus: Old things are...

Publius Cornelius Tacitus: Old things are...

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Source: In Wisdom...

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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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Jacob Bronowski: That is the...

Jacob Bronowski: That is the...

That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent...

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Jean Toomer: Men try to...

Jean Toomer: Men try to...

Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.

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Jean Toomer: People mistake their...

Jean Toomer: People mistake their...

People mistake their limitations for high standards.

Source: In And I Quote, by...

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Jean Toomer: No eyes that...

Jean Toomer: No eyes that...

No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.

Source: Cane, 1923.
-- Jean...

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Ralph Ellison: America is woven...

Ralph Ellison: America is woven...

America is woven of many strands. I would recognize them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet...

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William Hastie: You have to...

William Hastie: You have to...

You have to be there at the right time and you've got to be equipped.

Source: Grace...

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Louis Nizer: I know of...

Louis Nizer: I know of...

I know of no higher fortitude than stubbornness in the face of overwhelming odds.

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Alexander Cockburn: Are you more...

Alexander Cockburn: Are you more...

Are you more likely to tolerate drivel than you were four years ago? I think the answer is yes. Four years of Reagan...

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Orison Swett Marden: It is the...

Orison Swett Marden: It is the...

It is the youth who sees a great opportunity hidden in just these simple services, who sees a very uncommon situation,...

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Albert Pike: Doubt [is] the...

Albert Pike: Doubt [is] the...

Doubt [is] the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery. The faculty of doubting and questioning . . ....

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Harold Rosenberg: Today, each artist...

Harold Rosenberg: Today, each artist...

Today, each artist must undertake to invent himself, a lifelong act of creation that constitutes the essential content...

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Karl von Clausewitz: If the leader...

Karl von Clausewitz: If the leader...

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will...

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Marcel Proust: The mistakes made...

Marcel Proust: The mistakes made...

The mistakes made by doctors are innumerable. They err habitually on the side of optimism as to treatment, of...

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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: My dreams were...

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: My dreams were...

My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed -- my dearest pleasure...

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Sarah Orne Jewett: The thing that...

Sarah Orne Jewett: The thing that...

The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper -- whether...

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Anthony Trollope: A man's mind...

Anthony Trollope: A man's mind...

A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by...

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