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Adam Smith: The real price...

Adam Smith: The real price...

The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble...

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W H Beveridge: The trouble in...

W H Beveridge: The trouble in...

The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead...

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J P Morgan: I don't want...

J P Morgan: I don't want...

I don't want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do; I hire them to tell me how to do what I want to...

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How much has...

How much has...

How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling.

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It is cruel,...

It is cruel,...

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness & of pain: of strength &...

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Listen kid, take...

Listen kid, take...

Listen kid, take my advice, never hate a song that has sold half a million copies.

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[I am] a...

[I am] a...

[I am] a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularly do, what...

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The number of...

The number of...

The number of people that will not go to a show they don't want to see is unlimited.

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I cannot switch...

I cannot switch...

I cannot switch my voice. My voice is not like an elevator going up and down.

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Music is not...

Music is not...

Music is not written in red, white and blue. It is written in the heart's blood of the...

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Accomplishments have no...

Accomplishments have no...

Accomplishments have no color.

Source: In I Dream a World.
-- Leontyne Price,...

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Moli?re: Oh how fine...

Moli?re: Oh how fine...

Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!

Source: In The Book of Success, ed....

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Jules Renard: Writing is the...

Jules Renard: Writing is the...

Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.

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Victor Hugo: There is one...

Victor Hugo: There is one...

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world: and that is an idea whose time has...

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Jean-Paul Sartre: All human actions...

Jean-Paul Sartre: All human actions...

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

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Edna St Vincent Millay: The soul can...

Edna St Vincent Millay: The soul can...

The soul can split the sky in two,
And let the face of God shine through.


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Titus Maccius Plautus: There are occasions...

Titus Maccius Plautus: There are occasions...

There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.

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Eugene Ionesco: A work of...

Eugene Ionesco: A work of...

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Source: Notes and...

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Edward Albee: The thing that...

Edward Albee: The thing that...

The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.

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Marshall Field: Things to remember:...

Marshall Field: Things to remember:...

Things to remember: 1) The worth of character; 2) The improvement of talent; 3) The influence of example; 4) The joy...

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