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William Lyon Phelps: Nature makes boys...

William Lyon Phelps: Nature makes boys...

Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some...

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A J Balfour: Biography should be...

A J Balfour: Biography should be...

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Source: Quoted in: Observer ...

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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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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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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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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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Ashley Montagu: It is work,...

Ashley Montagu: It is work,...

It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has...

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Loren Eiseley: Like the herd...

Loren Eiseley: Like the herd...

Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.

Source:...

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Carlos Castaneda: No person is...

Carlos Castaneda: No person is...

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Timothy Leary: If you don't...

Timothy Leary: If you don't...

If you don't like what you are doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another...

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Timothy Leary: If you take...

Timothy Leary: If you take...

If you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs...

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Edward Jenner: I shall endeavour...

Edward Jenner: I shall endeavour...

I shall endeavour still further to prosecute this inquiry, an inquiry I trust not merely speculative, but of...

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Peter Mere Latham: Poisons and medicine...

Peter Mere Latham: Poisons and medicine...

Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with different intents.

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Benjamin Spock: I would say...

Benjamin Spock: I would say...

I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he...

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Elizabeth Blackwell: If society will...

Elizabeth Blackwell: If society will...

If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.

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Austin O'Malley: If you keep...

Austin O'Malley: If you keep...

If you keep your eyes so fixed on heaven that you never look at the earth, you will stumble into...

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Austin O'Malley: An Englishman thinks,...

Austin O'Malley: An Englishman thinks,...

An Englishman thinks, seated; a Frenchman, standing; an American, pacing; An Irishman,...

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Austin O'Malley: Reason clears and...

Austin O'Malley: Reason clears and...

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.

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