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Elizabeth Bowen: Experience isn't interesting...

Elizabeth Bowen: Experience isn't interesting...

Experience isn't interesting till it begins to repeat itself - in fact, till it does that, it hardly is...

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George Sand: One approaches the...

George Sand: One approaches the...

One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.

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Sarah Orne Jewett: In the life...

Sarah Orne Jewett: In the life...

In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or...

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Osbert Sitwell: Poetry is like...

Osbert Sitwell: Poetry is like...

Poetry is like fish: if it's fresh, it's good; if it's stale, it's bad; and if you're not certain, try it on the...

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Mickey Spillane: If you're a...

Mickey Spillane: If you're a...

If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's...

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Samuel Smiles: We often discover...

Samuel Smiles: We often discover...

We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a...

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Richard Hughes: Middle age snuffs...

Richard Hughes: Middle age snuffs...

Middle age snuffs our more talent than ever wars or sudden deaths do.

Source: The...

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Albert Szent-Gyorgyi: Here we stand...

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi: Here we stand...

Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific...

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Albert Szent-Gyorgyi: Discovery consists of...

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi: Discovery consists of...

Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something...

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Bobby Fischer: I like the...

Bobby Fischer: I like the...

I like the moment when I break a man's ego.

Source: In Newsweek, 31 Jul 1972.
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Anne Sullivan: People seldom see...

Anne Sullivan: People seldom see...

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is...

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Thomas Arnold: My object will...

Thomas Arnold: My object will...

My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to...

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William Lyon Phelps: One of the...

William Lyon Phelps: One of the...

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.

Source: In...

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Miguel de Unamuno: When a thing...

Miguel de Unamuno: When a thing...

When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid -- in which case all...

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Thomas Carlyle: Silence is the...

Thomas Carlyle: Silence is the...

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

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Thomas Carlyle: A poet without...

Thomas Carlyle: A poet without...

A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.

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Thomas Carlyle: A man without...

Thomas Carlyle: A man without...

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Thomas Carlyle: Rest is for...

Thomas Carlyle: Rest is for...

Rest is for the dead.

Source: 'Journal', June 22, 1830
-- Thomas Carlyle, (Dec 4...

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Wayne Dyer: Our lives are...

Wayne Dyer: Our lives are...

Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Wayne Dyer: Anything you really...

Wayne Dyer: Anything you really...

Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.

Source: In The...

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