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Mikhail Bakunin: The passion for...

Mikhail Bakunin: The passion for...

The passion for destruction is also a creative passion.

Source: Reaction in...

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William Gilbert: Down went the...

William Gilbert: Down went the...

Down went the owners --greedy men whom hope of gain allured:
Oh, dry the starting tear, for they were heavily...

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Jean Giraudoux: We all know...

Jean Giraudoux: We all know...

We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as...

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Ossie Davis: I find, in...

Ossie Davis: I find, in...

I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness.

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Mary McCarthy: Understanding is often...

Mary McCarthy: Understanding is often...

Understanding is often a prelude to forgiveness, but they are not the same, and we often forgive what we cannot...

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Eudora Welty: Writing fiction has...

Eudora Welty: Writing fiction has...

Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to...

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Mary Harris Mother Jones: We must stand...

Mary Harris Mother Jones: We must stand...

We must stand together; if we don't, there will be no victory for any one of us.

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Owen D Young: Markets as well...

Owen D Young: Markets as well...

Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions; markets as well as mobs can be inflamed to their own...

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Mary McCarthy: It has to...

Mary McCarthy: It has to...

It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of...

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But Lord! to...

But Lord! to...

But Lord! to see the absurd nature of Englishmen, that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at everything that looks...

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Norman Augustine: Bulls do not...

Norman Augustine: Bulls do not...

Bulls do not win bull fights.
People do.
People do not win people fights.
Lawyers...

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Mary McCarthy: I am putting...

Mary McCarthy: I am putting...

I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake.

Source: On The Group,, her 1963...

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Elias Canetti: The profoundest thoughts...

Elias Canetti: The profoundest thoughts...

The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something tricklike about them. A lot disappears in order for...

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All the breaks...

All the breaks...

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of...

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Samuel Foote: What can he...

Samuel Foote: What can he...

What can he mean by coming among us? He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in...

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Martha Washington: I am still...

Martha Washington: I am still...

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may be. . .

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Jacob Bronowski: That series of...

Jacob Bronowski: That series of...

That series of inventions by which man from age to age has remade his environment is a different kind of evolution --...

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Pierre-Joseph Proudhon: The law does...

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon: The law does...

The law does not generate justice. The law is nothing but a declaration and application of what is...

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Writing is easy;...

Writing is easy;...

Writing is easy; all you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until the drops of blood form on your...

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Cynthia Ozick: In saying what...

Cynthia Ozick: In saying what...

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

Source: We...

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