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Marcus Cato: Speech is the...

Marcus Cato: Speech is the...

Speech is the gift of all, but thought of few.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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June Singer: Is it sufficient...

June Singer: Is it sufficient...

Is it sufficient that you have learned to drive the car, or shall we look and see what is under the hood? Most people...

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William Temple: Science has its...

William Temple: Science has its...

Science has its being in a perpetual mental restlessness.

Source: In Wisdom of the...

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Frantz Fanon: I came into...

Frantz Fanon: I came into...

I came into the world imbued with the will to find a meaning in things . . . and then I found I was an object in the...

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Joyce Brothers: I don't give...

Joyce Brothers: I don't give...

I don't give advice. I can't tell anybody what to do. Instead I say this is what we know about this problem at this...

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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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August Bier: Medical theories are...

August Bier: Medical theories are...

Medical theories are most of the time even more peculiar than the facts themselves.

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Han Suyin: Truth, like surgery,...

Han Suyin: Truth, like surgery,...

Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.

Source: A Many Spendored Thing.
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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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Stanislaw Lem: Cancel me not...

Stanislaw Lem: Cancel me not...

Cancel me not -- for what shall then remain?
Abscissas, some mantissas, modules, modes,
A root or two, a torus...

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Booker T Washington: Excellence is to...

Booker T Washington: Excellence is to...

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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William Pickens: It is not...

William Pickens: It is not...

It is not the ought-ness of this problem that we have to consider, but the is-ness!

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Robert M Hutchins: To solve a...

Robert M Hutchins: To solve a...

To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to...

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Thomas Carlyle: Talk that does...

Thomas Carlyle: Talk that does...

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

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Thomas Carlyle: A fair day's...

Thomas Carlyle: A fair day's...

A fair day's wage for a fair day's work: it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the...

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Thomas Carlyle: A good book...

Thomas Carlyle: A good book...

A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.

Source: Speech made in support...

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Maxwell Maltz: Close scrutiny will...

Maxwell Maltz: Close scrutiny will...

Close scrutiny will show that most crisis situations are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you...

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M F K Fisher: Dictionaries are always...

M F K Fisher: Dictionaries are always...

Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.

Source: Dubious Honors,...

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Elizabeth Kenny: Some minds remain...

Elizabeth Kenny: Some minds remain...

Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit...

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Elizabeth Kenny: The American doctor...

Elizabeth Kenny: The American doctor...

The American doctor possesses a combination of conservatism and . . . an eagerness to know what it is really all...

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