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Grace Murray Hopper: At any given...

Grace Murray Hopper: At any given...

At any given moment, there is always a line representing what your boss will believe. If you step over it, you will...

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Oliver Cromwell: Subtlety may deceive...

Oliver Cromwell: Subtlety may deceive...

Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.

Source: In Wisdom of the Ages at...

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Miyamoto Musashi: Perception is strong...

Miyamoto Musashi: Perception is strong...

Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to...

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Miyamoto Musashi: Study strategy over...

Miyamoto Musashi: Study strategy over...

Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday;...

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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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Jean Toomer: Most novices picture...

Jean Toomer: Most novices picture...

Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few...

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Lin Yutang: If you can...

Lin Yutang: If you can...

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to...

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Claude Brown: Man, you not...

Claude Brown: Man, you not...

Man, you not givin' us another chance. You givin' us the same chance we had before.

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Van Wyck Brooks: Genius and virtue...

Van Wyck Brooks: Genius and virtue...

Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.

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Northrop Frye: Between religion's this...

Northrop Frye: Between religion's this...

Between religion's this is and poetry's but suppose this is, there must always be some kind of tension, until the...

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Alfred Victor Vigny: The true God,...

Alfred Victor Vigny: The true God,...

The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.

Source: La Bouteille A la...

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Henry James, Jr: The power to...

Henry James, Jr: The power to...

The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the...

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Margaret Atwood: The answers you...

Margaret Atwood: The answers you...

The answers you get from literature depend upon the questions you pose.

Source: In...

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Kingsley Amis: It was no...

Kingsley Amis: It was no...

It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.

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E L Doctorow: Writing is a...

E L Doctorow: Writing is a...

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.

Source: In Writers at Work,...

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Dorothy L Sayers: Books . ....

Dorothy L Sayers: Books . ....

Books . . . are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as...

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George Sand: Try to keep...

George Sand: Try to keep...

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that life...

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Iris Murdoch: All artists dream...

Iris Murdoch: All artists dream...

All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to...

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Natalia Ginzburg: When I write...

Natalia Ginzburg: When I write...

When I write stories I am like someone who is in her own country, walking along streets that she has known since she...

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Ellen Glasgow: To teach one's...

Ellen Glasgow: To teach one's...

To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.

Source: The Woman Within,...

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