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Harry Emerson Fosdick: Every human life...

Harry Emerson Fosdick: Every human life...

Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his...

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Plutarch: Medicine, to produce...

Plutarch: Medicine, to produce...

Medicine, to produce health, has to examine disease.

Source: Lives, 'Demetrius',...

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Gotthold Lessing: For me the...

Gotthold Lessing: For me the...

For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.

Source: In Pearls...

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Jeremy Bentham: The schoolmaster is...

Jeremy Bentham: The schoolmaster is...

The schoolmaster is abroad! And I trust to him armed with his primer against the soldier in full military...

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Thomas Paine: Such is the...

Thomas Paine: Such is the...

Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: The most spiritual...

Friedrich Nietzsche: The most spiritual...

The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: The creation of...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: The creation of...

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Gaston Bachelard: Ideas are invented...

Gaston Bachelard: Ideas are invented...

Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectifications of this kind one may hope to...

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Peter De Vries: Words fashioned with...

Peter De Vries: Words fashioned with...

Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie...

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James Thurber: A pinch of...

James Thurber: A pinch of...

A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Salman Rushdie: Books choose their...

Salman Rushdie: Books choose their...

Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious...

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James Allen: Dream lofty dreams,...

James Allen: Dream lofty dreams,...

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be;...

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Charles Dickens: You can only...

Charles Dickens: You can only...

You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. Stick...

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Charles Dickens: We cannot have...

Charles Dickens: We cannot have...

We cannot have single gentlemen to come into this establishment and sleep like double gentlemen without paying extra...

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Italo Calvino: The struggle of...

Italo Calvino: The struggle of...

The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the...

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William Makepeace Thackeray: The world is...

William Makepeace Thackeray: The world is...

The world is a looking glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it and it will in...

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Fay Weldon: You end up...

Fay Weldon: You end up...

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you...

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John LeCarre: Writing is like...

John LeCarre: Writing is like...

Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud...

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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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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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