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Maria Montessori: Establishing lasting peace...

Maria Montessori: Establishing lasting peace...

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of...

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Booker T Washington: No greater injury...

Booker T Washington: No greater injury...

No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will...

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Howard Thurman: Commitment means that...

Howard Thurman: Commitment means that...

Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a...

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William Pickens: Color had been...

William Pickens: Color had been...

Color had been made the mark of enslavement and was taken to be also the mark of inferiority; for prejudice does not...

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Sylvia Ashton-Warner: What can be...

Sylvia Ashton-Warner: What can be...

What can be heavier than wealth than freedom?

Source: In The Last Word - A Treasury...

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Thomas Carlyle: Let me have...

Thomas Carlyle: Let me have...

Let me have my own way in exactly everything, and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not...

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A P Herbert: Let's find out...

A P Herbert: Let's find out...

Let's find out what everyone is doing,
And then stop everyone from doing it.


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Loren Eiseley: The creative element...

Loren Eiseley: The creative element...

The creative element in the mind of man . . . emerges in as mysterious a fashion as those elementary particles which...

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Carl Gustav Jung: Without this playing...

Carl Gustav Jung: Without this playing...

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we to play of imagination is...

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Claude Levi-Strauss: If the composer...

Claude Levi-Strauss: If the composer...

If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been...

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Claude Levi-Strauss: I therefore claim...

Claude Levi-Strauss: I therefore claim...

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware...

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August Bier: I never say...

August Bier: I never say...

I never say of an operation that it is without danger.

Source: In Macmillan...

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Stanislaw Lem: Where do consequences...

Stanislaw Lem: Where do consequences...

Where do consequences lead? Depends on the escort.

Source: Holiday, Sep 1963.
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Henry David Thoreau: If a man...

Henry David Thoreau: If a man...

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to...

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Meister Eckhart: If you seek...

Meister Eckhart: If you seek...

If you seek the kernel, then you must break the shell. An likewise, if you would know the reality of Nature, you must...

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Ann Plato: To remove ignorance...

Ann Plato: To remove ignorance...

To remove ignorance is an important branch of benevolence.

Source: In The Black...

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Anna Julia Cooper: I constantly felt...

Anna Julia Cooper: I constantly felt...

I constantly felt (as I suppose many an ambitious girl has felt) a thumping from within unanswered by any beckoning...

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Emile Zola: Perfection is such...

Emile Zola: Perfection is such...

Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.

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F Scott Fitzgerald: Never confuse a...

F Scott Fitzgerald: Never confuse a...

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Elizabeth Bowen: Silences have a...

Elizabeth Bowen: Silences have a...

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

Source: The House in Paris,...

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