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Demosthenes: A man is...

Demosthenes: A man is...

A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be...

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Vaclav Havel: Drama assumes an...

Vaclav Havel: Drama assumes an...

Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have -- by disrupting that order -- a way of...

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Golda Meir: At work, you...

Golda Meir: At work, you...

At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such...

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Golda Meir: Those who don't...

Golda Meir: Those who don't...

Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.

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Margaret Thatcher: I have a...

Margaret Thatcher: I have a...

I have a habit of comparing the phraseology of communiques . . . noting a certain similarity of words, a certain...

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Adolf Hitler: The art of...

Adolf Hitler: The art of...

The art of leadership. . . consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking...

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Neville Chamberlain: How horrible, fantastic,...

Neville Chamberlain: How horrible, fantastic,...

How horrible, fantastic, incredible, it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of...

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John Barth: The Bible is...

John Barth: The Bible is...

The Bible is not man's word about God, but God's word about man.

Source: In The...

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Alan Paton: Who knows for...

Alan Paton: Who knows for...

Who knows for what we live, struggle and die?... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this,...

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Emily Bronte: Vain are the...

Emily Bronte: Vain are the...

Vain are the thousand creeds
That move men's hearts, unutterably vain;
Worthless as withered weeds,
Or idlest...

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Hermann Hesse: Eternity is a...

Hermann Hesse: Eternity is a...

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Harper Lee: The one thing...

Harper Lee: The one thing...

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

Source:...

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Harper Lee: Never, never, never,...

Harper Lee: Never, never, never,...

Never, never, never, on cross-examination ask a witness a question you don't already know the answer to . . . . Do it,...

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George MacDonald: Beauty and sadness...

George MacDonald: Beauty and sadness...

Beauty and sadness always go together.
Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth
Upon the earth without a...

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William Makepeace Thackeray: Let the man...

William Makepeace Thackeray: Let the man...

Let the man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world...

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James Allen: Good thoughts bear...

James Allen: Good thoughts bear...

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit -- and man is his own gardener.

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Dinah Mulock Craik: Keep what is...

Dinah Mulock Craik: Keep what is...

Keep what is worth keeping --
And with the breath of kindness
Blow the rest away.


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Anna Sewell: I am never...

Anna Sewell: I am never...

I am never afraid of what I know.

Source: Black Beauty, 1877.
-- Anna Sewell,...

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Harper Lee: You never really...

Harper Lee: You never really...

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

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Douglas Adams: A common mistake...

Douglas Adams: A common mistake...

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the...

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