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Frank Robinson: Listen, I was...

Frank Robinson: Listen, I was...

Listen, I was the first black manager in baseball and there was incredible pressure. I don't blame anyone else. I was...

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Robert Nathan: A man's family...

Robert Nathan: A man's family...

A man's family sets him apart from all other living creatures. . . . Only man stands with his children from first to...

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Barbarism is needed...

Barbarism is needed...

Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of...

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Pearl Buck: Because psychologists have...

Pearl Buck: Because psychologists have...

Because psychologists have been able to discover, exactly as in a slow-motion picture, the way the human creature...

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Imagination, which is...

Imagination, which is...

Imagination, which is the eldorado of the poet and of the novel-writer, often proves the most pernicious gift to the...

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Joseph Heller: Frankly, I'd like...

Joseph Heller: Frankly, I'd like...

Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private...

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Virtue, like a...

Virtue, like a...

Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.

Source: In And I...

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Every man has...

Every man has...

Every man has three characters -- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he...

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Who would ever...

Who would ever...

Who would ever think that so much can go on in the soul of a young girl?

Source:...

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Don't bother discussing...

Don't bother discussing...

Don't bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add.

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W Clement Stone: Sales are contingent...

W Clement Stone: Sales are contingent...

Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman -- not the attitude of the...

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The point is...

The point is...

The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly,...

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Abigail Adams: A little of...

Abigail Adams: A little of...

A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the...

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Thomas Szasz: Happiness is an...

Thomas Szasz: Happiness is an...

Happiness is an imaginary condition formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by...

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Dwight D Eisenhower: Plans are nothing;...

Dwight D Eisenhower: Plans are nothing;...

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Source: In Quotable Business, ed. Louis...

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Spilling your guts...

Spilling your guts...

Spilling your guts is just exactly as charming as it sounds.

Source: Social...

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The longer you...

The longer you...

The longer you live and the more you learn, the more clearly you will feel the difference between the few men who are...

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Benjamin Harrison: I knew that...

Benjamin Harrison: I knew that...

I knew that my staying up would not change the [election] result if I were defeated, while if elected I had a hard day...

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Thomas Szasz: Doubt is to...

Thomas Szasz: Doubt is to...

Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things;...

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Henry Louis Gates, Jr: The act of...

Henry Louis Gates, Jr: The act of...

The act of writing for the slave constituted the act of creating a public, historical self, not only the self of the...

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