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Jackie Gleason: I have a...

Jackie Gleason: I have a...

I have a 'Play the melody' philosophy. It means don't over-arrange, don't make life difficult. Just play the melody --...

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Siddha Nagarjuna: Although you may...

Siddha Nagarjuna: Although you may...

Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your...

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Artemus Ward: I prefer temperance...

Artemus Ward: I prefer temperance...

I prefer temperance hotels - although they sell worse kinds of liquor than any other kind of...

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You can start...

You can start...

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better...

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Antonio Porchia: If you do...

Antonio Porchia: If you do...

If you do not raise your eyes, you will think you are at the highest point.

Source:...

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Marian Wright Edelman: Being considerate of...

Marian Wright Edelman: Being considerate of...

Being considerate of others will take you and your children further in life than any college or professional...

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Loren Eiseley: One [practitioner of...

Loren Eiseley: One [practitioner of...

One [practitioner of science] is the educated man who still has a controlled sense of wonder before the universal...

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Anatole France: An education isn't...

Anatole France: An education isn't...

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate...

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Cogito ergo spud....

Cogito ergo spud....

Cogito ergo spud.
[I think, therefore I yam]


Source: From Rand Lindsly's HUGE...

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Elizabeth Gould Davis: So long has...

Elizabeth Gould Davis: So long has...

So long has the myth of feminine inferiority prevailed that women themselves find it hard to believe that their own...

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Frank Norris: [The Muse of...

Frank Norris: [The Muse of...

[The Muse of our Fiction of the future] will lead you - if you are humble and honest with her - straight into a World...

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William Ralph Inge: Worry is interest...

William Ralph Inge: Worry is interest...

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it is due.

Source: In Observer (London),...

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Loren Eiseley: The creative element...

Loren Eiseley: The creative element...

The creative element in the mind of man . . . emerges in as mysterious a fashion as those elementary particles which...

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Stonewall Jackson: I like liquor...

Stonewall Jackson: I like liquor...

I like liquor - its taste and its effects - and that is just the reason why I never drink...

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Robert Nathan: Beauty is ever...

Robert Nathan: Beauty is ever...

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind
A shadow fleeting; she is never plain.
She is a visitor who leaves...

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Claude Bernard: Science does not...

Claude Bernard: Science does not...

Science does not permit exceptions.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference...

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Robert Nathan: Sorrow is a...

Robert Nathan: Sorrow is a...

Sorrow is a silence in the heart.

Source: A Cedar Box.
-- Robert Nathan, (Jan 2...

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Marian Wright Edelman: Parents have become...

Marian Wright Edelman: Parents have become...

Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for children that they forget that they themselves...

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Thomas Szasz: A child becomes...

Thomas Szasz: A child becomes...

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be...

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Michel Foucault: Madness is the...

Michel Foucault: Madness is the...

Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in...

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