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Samuel Smiles: It is a...

Samuel Smiles: It is a...

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept,...

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Jackson Pollock: Abstract painting is...

Jackson Pollock: Abstract painting is...

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you.

Source: Quoted by Francis V...

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Lillian Hellman: If I had...

Lillian Hellman: If I had...

If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or...

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Carl Stokes: There is nothing...

Carl Stokes: There is nothing...

There is nothing fundamentally wrong with America's cities that money can't cure.

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Louis Brandeis: If we would...

Louis Brandeis: If we would...

If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.

Source: New...

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Natalie Clifford Barney: How many inner...

Natalie Clifford Barney: How many inner...

How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.

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Alcuin: Nor should we...

Alcuin: Nor should we...

Nor should we listen to those who say The voice of the people is the voice of God, for the turbulence of the mob is...

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New Year's Resolution:...

New Year's Resolution:...

New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my...

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So long as...

So long as...

So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give...

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Marsha Norman: There are things...

Marsha Norman: There are things...

There are things that music can do that language could never do, that painting could never do, or sculpture. Music is...

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Lillian Hellman: God forgives those...

Lillian Hellman: God forgives those...

God forgives those who invent what they need.

Source: The Little Foxes, 1939.
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Erasmus Darwin: Hear him, ye...

Erasmus Darwin: Hear him, ye...

Hear him, ye Senates, hear this truth sublime;
He who allows oppression shares the...

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The freedom that...

The freedom that...

The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and...

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Judith Viorst: Strength is the...

Judith Viorst: Strength is the...

Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands- and then eat just one of the...

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Henry David Thoreau: Not that the...

Henry David Thoreau: Not that the...

Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.

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John Ford: Why, I hold...

John Ford: Why, I hold...

Why, I hold fate
Clasped in my fist, and could command the course
Of time's eternal motion, hadst thou...

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James Forten: Let not the...

James Forten: Let not the...

Let not the spirit of the father behold the son robbed of that liberty which he died to establish, but let the motto...

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Joseph Brodsky: Man is what...

Joseph Brodsky: Man is what...

Man is what he reads.

Source: Quoted by Thomas D'Evelyn Christian Science Monitor,...

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Thomas Browne: Be able to...

Thomas Browne: Be able to...

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.

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Emile Durkheim: One cannot long...

Emile Durkheim: One cannot long...

One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain...

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