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Dick Gregory: I never believed...

Dick Gregory: I never believed...

I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after...

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Virginia Woolf: My own brain...

Virginia Woolf: My own brain...

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery --always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then...

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Virginia Woolf: One likes people...

Virginia Woolf: One likes people...

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they...

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Charles Sanders Peirce: The pragmatist knows...

Charles Sanders Peirce: The pragmatist knows...

The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art which has to be acquired with difficulty.

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Francis Bacon: Histories make men...

Francis Bacon: Histories make men...

Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric...

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Pierre-Joseph Proudhon: If one were...

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon: If one were...

If one were to ask. . .What is slavery? and I should answer in one word, murder, my meaning would be understood at...

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We fail far...

We fail far...

We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Source: In The World's Best...

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You don't become...

You don't become...

You don't become enormously successful without encountering and overcoming a number of extremely challenging...

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In imagination, thereÆs...

In imagination, thereÆs...

In imagination, thereÆs no limitation.

Source: In Collection of 10,000...

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Genius is a...

Genius is a...

Genius is a nuisance, and it is the duty of schools and colleges to abate it by setting genius-traps in its...

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It is the...

It is the...

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

Source:...

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Doing easily what...

Doing easily what...

Doing easily what others find is difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is...

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To know how...

To know how...

To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of...

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Action is coarsened...

Action is coarsened...

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

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Which came first...

Which came first...

Which came first the intestine or the tapeworm?

Source: Interview, 12 April 1992,...

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Guns have metamorphosed...

Guns have metamorphosed...

Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what...

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In this lovely...

In this lovely...

In this lovely land of corrugated cartons and plastic bags, we want our entertainment packaged neatly . . . an...

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Live so that...

Live so that...

Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to.

Source: Forbes...

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I'm a real...

I'm a real...

I'm a real pussy cat -- with an iron tail.

Source: In Poisonous Quotes, by Colin...

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[Joseph McCarthy is]...

[Joseph McCarthy is]...

[Joseph McCarthy is] the only major politician in the country who can be labeled liar without fear of...

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