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Charles Buxton: You will never...

Charles Buxton: You will never...

You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.

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Arthur Koestler: True creativity often...

Arthur Koestler: True creativity often...

True creativity often starts where language ends.

Source: The act of Creation, bk....

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Truman Capote: Finishing a book...

Truman Capote: Finishing a book...

Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the yard and shot it.

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Nancy Reagan: The Sixties, of...

Nancy Reagan: The Sixties, of...

The Sixties, of course, was the worst time in the world to try and bring up a child. They were exposed to all these...

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One gets tired...

One gets tired...

One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano player in a...

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John Randolph: Mean spirits under...

John Randolph: Mean spirits under...

Mean spirits under disappointment, like small beer in a thunderstorm always turn sour.

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Arthur Koestler: The progress of...

Arthur Koestler: The progress of...

The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories...

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The average, healthy,...

The average, healthy,...

The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain...

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Margaret Walker: You is born...

Margaret Walker: You is born...

You is born lucky, and it's better to be born lucky than born rich, cause if you is lucky you can git rich, but if...

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William Congreve: Music hath charm...

William Congreve: Music hath charm...

Music hath charm to soothe a savage breast,
To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.


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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: When Harvard men...

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: When Harvard men...

When Harvard men say they've graduated from Radcliffe, then we've made it.

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Thomas Carlyle: A man willing...

Thomas Carlyle: A man willing...

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under...

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Aesop: Kindness effects more...

Aesop: Kindness effects more...

Kindness effects more than severity.

Source: 'The Wind and the Sun'
-- Aesop, ( ...

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Hollywood money isn't...

Hollywood money isn't...

Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are.

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Francois LaRochefoucauld: Hope is the...

Francois LaRochefoucauld: Hope is the...

Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us,...

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Being divorced is...

Being divorced is...

Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the...

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Terence: True wisdom consists...

Terence: True wisdom consists...

True wisdom consists not in seeing what is immediately before our eyes, but in foreseeing what is to...

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Henry Brooks Adams: They know enough...

Henry Brooks Adams: They know enough...

They know enough who know how to learn.

Source: The Education of Henry Adams.
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Raoul Vaneigem: In an industrial...

Raoul Vaneigem: In an industrial...

In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of...

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I believe that...

I believe that...

I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.

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