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Mary Steichen Calderone: I don't want...

Mary Steichen Calderone: I don't want...

I don't want to control anybody's mind or anybody's heart -- I just want to help free people from the concert of sex...

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James Thurber: You can fool...

James Thurber: You can fool...

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

Source: Fables for Our...

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Gradually I came...

Gradually I came...

Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey,...

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Knowledge is like...

Knowledge is like...

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Source: In Instant...

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A wicked fellow...

A wicked fellow...

A wicked fellow is the most pious when he takes to it. He'll beat you all at piety.

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Franklin P Jones: One trouble with...

Franklin P Jones: One trouble with...

One trouble with developing speed reading skills is that by the time you realize a book is boring you've already...

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Elizabeth Bishop: All my life...

Elizabeth Bishop: All my life...

All my life I have lived and behaved very much like [the] sandpiper -- just running down the edges of different...

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Immanuel Kant: Out of timber...

Immanuel Kant: Out of timber...

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be...

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James Thurber: He knows all...

James Thurber: He knows all...

He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.

Source: In Webster's...

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Emile M Cioran: Alone, even doing...

Emile M Cioran: Alone, even doing...

Alone, even doing nothing, you do not waste your time. You do, almost always, in company. No encounter with yourself...

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Eric Gill: Without philosophy man...

Eric Gill: Without philosophy man...

Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why.

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Theodore Dreiser: Let no one...

Theodore Dreiser: Let no one...

Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage...

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Dick Gregory: You know why...

Dick Gregory: You know why...

You know why Madison Avenue advertising has never done well in Harlem? We're the only ones who know what it means to...

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The first rule...

The first rule...

The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself.

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Will Durant: Nothing is new...

Will Durant: Nothing is new...

Nothing is new except arrangement.

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

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John D Rockefeller, Jr: I had no...

John D Rockefeller, Jr: I had no...

I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to...

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Lillian Hellman: Success isn't everything...

Lillian Hellman: Success isn't everything...

Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight.

Source: Julian, in Toys...

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Francesco Petrarch: Who overrefines his...

Francesco Petrarch: Who overrefines his...

Who overrefines his argument brings himself to grief.

Source: In Shorter Bartlett's...

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As a general...

As a general...

As a general rule, if you want to get at the truth - hear both sides and believe neither.

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One of the...

One of the...

One of the drawbacks of fame is that one can never escape from it.

Source: In The...

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