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Max Eastman: A poet in...

Max Eastman: A poet in...

A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.

Source: In The...

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Samuel Smiles: The wise man....

Samuel Smiles: The wise man....

The wise man. . . if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

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Richard Hughes: The trouble with...

Richard Hughes: The trouble with...

The trouble with success is that a man may be perfectly sound on the short story but not very good about the atomic...

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Mark Twain: It is easier...

Mark Twain: It is easier...

It is easier to manufacture seven facts out of whole cloth than one emotion.

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Dr Seuss: Adults are obsolete...

Dr Seuss: Adults are obsolete...

Adults are obsolete children.

Source: In The Wit and Wisdom of the 20th Century, by...

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Dr Seuss: I meant what...

Dr Seuss: I meant what...

I meant what I said, and I said what I meant.
An elephant's faithful, one hundred...

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Emile Zola: If you shut...

Emile Zola: If you shut...

If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.

Source: In The...

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Emile Zola: Art is a...

Emile Zola: Art is a...

Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Ruth Benedict: I have always...

Ruth Benedict: I have always...

I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation.

Source: In...

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Ruth Benedict: In a world...

Ruth Benedict: In a world...

In a world that holds books and babies and canyon trails, why should one condemn oneself to live day-in, day-out with...

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Loren Eiseley: God knows how...

Loren Eiseley: God knows how...

God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own...

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George Gurdjieff: Laughter relieves us...

George Gurdjieff: Laughter relieves us...

Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison....

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Maxwell Maltz: Begin to imagine...

Maxwell Maltz: Begin to imagine...

Begin to imagine what the desirable outcome would be like. Go over these mental pictures and delineate details and...

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M F K Fisher: . . ....

M F K Fisher: . . ....

. . . most bereaved souls crave nourishment more tangible than prayers: they want a steak.

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Annie Elizabeth Delany: I thought I...

Annie Elizabeth Delany: I thought I...

I thought I could change the world. It took me a hundred years to figure out I can't change the world. I can only...

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Annie Elizabeth Delany: Once in a...

Annie Elizabeth Delany: Once in a...

Once in a while, God sends a good white person my way, even to this day. I think it's God's way of keeping me from...

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Annie Elizabeth Delany: Ain't nobody going...

Annie Elizabeth Delany: Ain't nobody going...

Ain't nobody going to censor me, no, sir! I'm a hundred and one years old, and at my age, honey, I can say what I...

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Timothy Leary: Science is all...

Timothy Leary: Science is all...

Science is all metaphor.

Source: Interview, 24 Sep 1980; published in Contemporary...

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Hippocrates: Everything in excess...

Hippocrates: Everything in excess...

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Elizabeth Blackwell: It is well...

Elizabeth Blackwell: It is well...

It is well worth the efforts of a life-time to have attained knowledge which justifies an attack on the root of all...

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