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Leon Trotsky: Old age is...

Leon Trotsky: Old age is...

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

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. . . while men represent powerful activity as assertion and aggression, women in contrast portray acts of nurturance...

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John Wanamaker: [A]ny seeming deception...

John Wanamaker: [A]ny seeming deception...

[A]ny seeming deception in a statement is costly, not only in the expense of the advertising but in the detrimental...

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[Blue jeans are]...

[Blue jeans are]...

[Blue jeans are] the most beautiful things since the gondola.

Source: In NY Times,...

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Louise Nevelson: When you are...

Louise Nevelson: When you are...

When you are doing a piece you are with it. You don't want to wait until next week, when experience will have given...

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Myth is neither...

Myth is neither...

Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.

Source: Mythologies, ...

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The person who...

The person who...

The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and...

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Franz Kafka: One must not...

Franz Kafka: One must not...

One must not cheat anybody, not even the world of one's triumph.

Source: In The...

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Florence Scovel Shinn: If one is...

Florence Scovel Shinn: If one is...

If one is willing to do a thing he is afraid to do, he does not have to . . . face a situation fearlessly, and [if]...

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Seymour Peck's editorial...

Seymour Peck's editorial...

Seymour Peck's editorial hand ranged far, wide and deep, touching lightly but expertly . . . He seemed less an editor...

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Samuel Foote: What can he...

Samuel Foote: What can he...

What can he mean by coming among us? He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in...

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Edgar Watson Howe: No man would...

Edgar Watson Howe: No man would...

No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next.

Source: In...

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New York. ....

New York. ....

New York. . . is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish...

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Americans have begun...

Americans have begun...

Americans have begun to understand that trouble does not start somewhere on the other side of town. It seems to...

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Andy Warhol: I'm a deeply...

Andy Warhol: I'm a deeply...

I'm a deeply superficial person.

Source: In Quotable Business, ed. Louis E. Boone,...

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Great speeches have...

Great speeches have...

Great speeches have always had great soundbites. The problem now is that the young technicians who put together...

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The act of...

The act of...

The act of writing is the act of making soul, alchemy.

Source: In Words of Women...

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George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon: These things [subject...

George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon: These things [subject...

These things [subject matter] are external to the man; style is the man.

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As the Spanish...

As the Spanish...

As the Spanish proverb says, He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies...

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Nannie Burroughs: We specialize in...

Nannie Burroughs: We specialize in...

We specialize in the wholly impossible.

Source: Motto of the National Training...

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