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Henry Brooks Adams: Absolute liberty is...

Henry Brooks Adams: Absolute liberty is...

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is...

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Jacob Bronowski: Sooner or later...

Jacob Bronowski: Sooner or later...

Sooner or later every one of us breathes an atom that has been breathed before by anyone you can think of who has...

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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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Colin Powell: Avoid having your...

Colin Powell: Avoid having your...

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that, when your position fails, your ego goes with...

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Norman Schwarzkopf: Do what is...

Norman Schwarzkopf: Do what is...

Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look...

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Karl von Clausewitz: War is the...

Karl von Clausewitz: War is the...

War is the province of chance. In no other sphere of human activity must such a margin be left for this intruder. It...

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Grace Murray Hopper: If it isn't...

Grace Murray Hopper: If it isn't...

If it isn't bolted down, bring it home.

Source: In The Manager's Book of...

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Francois LaRochefoucauld: Commonplace minds usually...

Francois LaRochefoucauld: Commonplace minds usually...

Commonplace minds usually condemn what is beyond the reach of their understanding.

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Mark Twain: Civilization is a...

Mark Twain: Civilization is a...

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

Source:...

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Milan Kundera: The sound of...

Milan Kundera: The sound of...

The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.

Source:...

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Robert Nathan: Give exceeding thanks...

Robert Nathan: Give exceeding thanks...

Give exceeding thanks for the mystery which remains a mystery still -- the veil that hides you from the infinite,...

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Margaret Atwood: We thought we...

Margaret Atwood: We thought we...

We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.

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Kingsley Amis: If you can't...

Kingsley Amis: If you can't...

If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.

Source: From...

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Robert Penn Warren: The end of...

Robert Penn Warren: The end of...

The end of man is knowledge, but [man] can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him; whether he is killed...

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Jessamyn West: It is easy...

Jessamyn West: It is easy...

It is easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit to forgive them for having witnessed your...

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Jessamyn West: A broken bone...

Jessamyn West: A broken bone...

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

Source: The...

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Sarah Orne Jewett: Tain't worthwhile to...

Sarah Orne Jewett: Tain't worthwhile to...

'Tain't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.

Source: The Country of...

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Charles Buxton: You will never...

Charles Buxton: You will never...

You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.

Source:...

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Charles Buxton: Success soon palls....

Charles Buxton: Success soon palls....

Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your...

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Ariel Durant: Only a fool...

Ariel Durant: Only a fool...

Only a fool would try to compress a hundred centuries into a hundred pages of hazardous conclusions. We...

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