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Maria Montessori: The only language...

Maria Montessori: The only language...

The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them...

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Maria Montessori: The greatness of...

Maria Montessori: The greatness of...

The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth. From this almost mystic affirmation there comes...

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Pierre de Coubertin: Olympism seeks to...

Pierre de Coubertin: Olympism seeks to...

Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of a good example and...

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Pierre de Coubertin: Success comprises in...

Pierre de Coubertin: Success comprises in...

Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this...

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Howard Thurman: A dream is...

Howard Thurman: A dream is...

A dream is the bearer of a new possibility, the enlarged horizon, the great hope.

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William Pickens: The best time...

William Pickens: The best time...

The best time to do a thing is when it can be done.

Source: In Black Pearls, by...

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Thomas Carlyle: Endurance is patience...

Thomas Carlyle: Endurance is patience...

Endurance is patience concentrated.

Source: In Instant Quotation Dictionary, by...

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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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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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Milan Kundera: A novel that...

Milan Kundera: A novel that...

A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only...

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Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: Many a truth...

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: Many a truth...

Many a truth sprang from an error.

Source: Aph, 1905.
-- Marie von...

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Mary Renault: How can people...

Mary Renault: How can people...

How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown?

Source: The King Must...

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F Scott Fitzgerald: To write it,...

F Scott Fitzgerald: To write it,...

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it -- three minutes; to collect the data in it -- all my...

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Henry James, Jr: I don't want...

Henry James, Jr: I don't want...

I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.

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Marcel Proust: If a little...

Marcel Proust: If a little...

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the...

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George Sand: The trade of...

George Sand: The trade of...

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

Source: Letter,...

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Flannery O'Connor: The novel is...

Flannery O'Connor: The novel is...

The novel is an art form and when you use it for anything other than art, you pervert it.

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Natalia Ginzburg: Children should be...

Natalia Ginzburg: Children should be...

Children should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to...

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Max Eastman: Emotion is the...

Max Eastman: Emotion is the...

Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the...

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William McFee: A man must...

William McFee: A man must...

A man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting...

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