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Fawn M Brodie: A passion for...

Fawn M Brodie: A passion for...

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a...

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Kenneth Grahame: It is the...

Kenneth Grahame: It is the...

It is the restrictions placed on vice by our social code which makes its pursuit so peculiarly...

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Robertson Davies: Few people can...

Robertson Davies: Few people can...

Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.

Source: Dylan Thomas...

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R S Surtees: The only infallible...

R S Surtees: The only infallible...

The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is...

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Anatole France: Never lend books,...

Anatole France: Never lend books,...

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them. The only books I have in my library are those that other folks have...

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Elias Canetti: The self-explorer, whether...

Elias Canetti: The self-explorer, whether...

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but...

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Elias Canetti: The profoundest thoughts...

Elias Canetti: The profoundest thoughts...

The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for...

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Henry James, Jr: The power to...

Henry James, Jr: The power to...

The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the...

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Aesop: Obscurity brings safety....

Aesop: Obscurity brings safety....

Obscurity brings safety.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations Library,...

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Dorothy L Sayers: A human being...

Dorothy L Sayers: A human being...

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

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Marcus Fabius Quintilian: We excuse our...

Marcus Fabius Quintilian: We excuse our...

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

Source: In Wisdom of the Ages...

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Hannah Arendt: The ceaseless, senseless...

Hannah Arendt: The ceaseless, senseless...

The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible,...

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Joel A Barker: The ultimate function...

Joel A Barker: The ultimate function...

The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it.

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Wilhelm von Humboldt: I am more...

Wilhelm von Humboldt: I am more...

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of...

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A E Housman: A neck God...

A E Housman: A neck God...

A neck God made for other use
Than strangling in a string.


Source: A Shropshire...

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Warren E Burger: For better or...

Warren E Burger: For better or...

For better or worse, editing is what editors are for; and editing is selection and choice of material. That editors...

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Hugo L Black: It is the...

Hugo L Black: It is the...

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting...

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Arthur J Goldberg: The trick is...

Arthur J Goldberg: The trick is...

The trick is to be there when it's settled.

Source: Responding to a question from...

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Dale Carnegie: You are merely...

Dale Carnegie: You are merely...

You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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W C Sellar: Do not on...

W C Sellar: Do not on...

Do not on any account attempt to write on both sides of the paper at once.

Source:...

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