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George Eliot: Of what use,...

George Eliot: Of what use,...

Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need...

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G K Chesterton: The perplexity of...

G K Chesterton: The perplexity of...

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in...

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Italo Calvino: Everything can change,...

Italo Calvino: Everything can change,...

Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's...

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Mary McCarthy: I suppose everyone...

Mary McCarthy: I suppose everyone...

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think,...

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Charles Dickens: Take nothing on...

Charles Dickens: Take nothing on...

Take nothing on its looks: take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.

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Louis Auchincloss: A neurotic can...

Louis Auchincloss: A neurotic can...

A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when...

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James Thurber: It had only...

James Thurber: It had only...

It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.

Source: When asked his opinion of a...

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Claude Levi-Strauss: Just as the...

Claude Levi-Strauss: Just as the...

Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone...

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Harvey Cushing: The capacity of...

Harvey Cushing: The capacity of...

The capacity of man himself is only revealed when, under stress and responsibility, he breaks through his educational...

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Pierre de Coubertin: The most important...

Pierre de Coubertin: The most important...

The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part . . . The essential thing in life is not...

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Howard Thurman: He who fears...

Howard Thurman: He who fears...

He who fears is literally delivered to destruction.

Source: In Famous Black...

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Thomas Carlyle: A crowd has...

Thomas Carlyle: A crowd has...

A crowd has the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Source: In Webster's...

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Ashley Montagu: The cultured man...

Ashley Montagu: The cultured man...

The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.

Source: The Cultured Man,...

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Ruth Benedict: It is strange...

Ruth Benedict: It is strange...

It is strange how we rebel against a platitude until suddenly in a different lingo it looms up again as the only...

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Loren Eiseley: The creative element...

Loren Eiseley: The creative element...

The creative element in the mind of man . . . emerges in as mysterious a fashion as those elementary particles which...

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M F K Fisher: When a man...

M F K Fisher: When a man...

When a man is small, he loves and hates food with a ferocity which soon dims. But at six years old his very bowels...

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Clara Barton: . . ....

Clara Barton: . . ....

. . . the surest test of discipline is its absence.

Source: The Story
-- Clara...

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Clara Barton: Others are writing...

Clara Barton: Others are writing...

Others are writing my biography, and let it rest as they elect to make it. I have lived my life, well and ill, always...

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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson: When I felt...

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson: When I felt...

When I felt rather overcome with [my father's] opposition, I said as firmly as I could, that I must have this or...

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Martin Delany: We must make...

Martin Delany: We must make...

We must make an issue, create an event, and establish a national position for ourselves: and never may expect to be...

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