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Orison Swett Marden: Every youth owes...

Orison Swett Marden: Every youth owes...

Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in...

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Ralph Nader: For almost seventy...

Ralph Nader: For almost seventy...

For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of...

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Walter F Mondale: Do you want...

Walter F Mondale: Do you want...

Do you want to tear your life apart and get rid of everything you've known as a lifestyle? Like seeing your family?...

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Elizabeth Gould Davis: The fact is...

Elizabeth Gould Davis: The fact is...

The fact is that men need women more than women need men; and so, aware of this fact, man has sought to keep woman...

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William Plomer: Patriotism is the...

William Plomer: Patriotism is the...

Patriotism is the last refuge of the sculptor.

Source: Attributed.
-- William...

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Walter Benjamin: Nothing is poorer...

Walter Benjamin: Nothing is poorer...

Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad...

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Francois Rabelais: Science without conscience...

Francois Rabelais: Science without conscience...

Science without conscience is the death of the soul.

Source: (c. 1494-1553) French...

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Robertson Davies: What we call...

Robertson Davies: What we call...

What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.

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Elizabeth Bowen: Art is the...

Elizabeth Bowen: Art is the...

Art is the only thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.

Source:...

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Annie Dillard: The body of...

Annie Dillard: The body of...

The body of literature, with its limits and edges, exists outside some people and inside others. Only after the writer...

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Gertrude Stein: Remarks are not...

Gertrude Stein: Remarks are not...

Remarks are not literature.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference...

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Max Eastman: A joke is...

Max Eastman: A joke is...

A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible...

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Jerome K Jerome: It is in...

Jerome K Jerome: It is in...

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. . . . It is in our...

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Honore de Balzac: We cannot confront...

Honore de Balzac: We cannot confront...

We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.

Source: Madame de la...

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Honore de Balzac: You may imitate,...

Honore de Balzac: You may imitate,...

You may imitate, but never counterfeit.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Honore de Balzac: A mother who...

Honore de Balzac: A mother who...

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Samuel Smiles: The reason why...

Samuel Smiles: The reason why...

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

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Samuel Smiles: Labor is still,...

Samuel Smiles: Labor is still,...

Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is...

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Richard Hughes: All that non-fiction...

Richard Hughes: All that non-fiction...

All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.

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Arthur Conan Doyle: Depend upon it,...

Arthur Conan Doyle: Depend upon it,...

Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.

Source: A Case of...

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