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Mark Twain: Truth is neither...

Mark Twain: Truth is neither...

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Source: In...

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Mark Twain: When I was...

Mark Twain: When I was...

When I was younger, I could remember anything whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying . . . soon...

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Hosea Ballou: Error is always...

Hosea Ballou: Error is always...

Error is always more busy than truth.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase,...

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Sydney Smith: Have the courage...

Sydney Smith: Have the courage...

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of...

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Augustus (and Julius) Hare: Half the failures...

Augustus (and Julius) Hare: Half the failures...

Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping.

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Mary McLeod Bethune: Invest in the...

Mary McLeod Bethune: Invest in the...

Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.

Source: In...

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Plato: Arguments derived from...

Plato: Arguments derived from...

Arguments derived from probabilities are idle.

Source: Phaedo.
-- Plato, (May 21...

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Hosea Ballou: Theories are always...

Hosea Ballou: Theories are always...

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

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F Scott Fitzgerald: No grand idea...

F Scott Fitzgerald: No grand idea...

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

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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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Dorothy L Sayers: Very dangerous things,...

Dorothy L Sayers: Very dangerous things,...

Very dangerous things, theories.

Source: The Unpleasantness at the Bellona...

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Eudora Welty: What I do...

Eudora Welty: What I do...

What I do in the writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart and skin of a human being who is not...

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Emile Zola: I am little...

Emile Zola: I am little...

I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life,...

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G K Chesterton: As enunciated today,...

G K Chesterton: As enunciated today,...

As enunciated today, 'progress' is simply a comparative of which we have not settled the...

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Sinclair Lewis: Our American professors...

Sinclair Lewis: Our American professors...

Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.

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Margaret Atwood: A word after...

Margaret Atwood: A word after...

A word after a word after a word is power.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Robert Nathan: Give exceeding thanks...

Robert Nathan: Give exceeding thanks...

Give exceeding thanks for the mystery which remains a mystery still -- the veil that hides you from the infinite,...

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Joyce Carol Oates: Where we come...

Joyce Carol Oates: Where we come...

Where we come from in America no longer signifies. It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us...

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Herman Melville: There are some...

Herman Melville: There are some...

There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.

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William Makepeace Thackeray: Let the man...

William Makepeace Thackeray: Let the man...

Let the man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world...

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