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Theodore Parker: The books that...

Theodore Parker: The books that...

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy...

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Harvey Cox: What we are...

Harvey Cox: What we are...

What we are seeking so frantically elsewhere may turn out to be the horse we have been riding all...

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Harvey Cox: The comic, more...

Harvey Cox: The comic, more...

The comic, more than the tragic, because it ignites hope, leads to more, not less, participation in the struggle for a...

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Aristotle: We become just...

Aristotle: We become just...

We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave...

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Aristotle: What we have...

Aristotle: What we have...

What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.

Source: Nicomachean Ethics, Bk....

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Dogen: You should study...

Dogen: You should study...

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a...

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Alexander Crummell: Color is nothing,...

Alexander Crummell: Color is nothing,...

Color is nothing, anywhere. Civilized condition differences men, all over the globe.

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Buddha: All that we...

Buddha: All that we...

All that we are arises
With our thoughts.
With our thoughts,
We make our world.


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John Henry Newman: Ability hits the...

John Henry Newman: Ability hits the...

Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.

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Paul Tillich: The first duty...

Paul Tillich: The first duty...

The first duty of love is to listen.

Source: Recalled on his death, 22 Oct...

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William James: In the practical...

William James: In the practical...

In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering.

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Luigi Pirandello: Whatever is a...

Luigi Pirandello: Whatever is a...

Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be --...

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J August Strindberg: A man with...

J August Strindberg: A man with...

A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the...

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Aphra Behn: He that knew...

Aphra Behn: He that knew...

He that knew all that ever learning writ,
Knew only this -- that he knew nothing yet.


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Colley Cibber: This business will...

Colley Cibber: This business will...

This business will never hold water.

Source: She Wou'd and She Wou'd Not, Act...

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Neil Simon: People with honorary...

Neil Simon: People with honorary...

People with honorary awards are looked upon with disfavor. Would you let an honorary mechanic fix your brand-new...

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Emily Dickinson: A word is...

Emily Dickinson: A word is...

A word is dead when it is said, some say.
I say it just begins to live that day.


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Francesco Petrarch: Who overrefines his...

Francesco Petrarch: Who overrefines his...

Who overrefines his argument brings himself to grief.

Source: In Shorter Bartlett's...

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Sophocles: To a man...

Sophocles: To a man...

To a man who is afraid everything rustles.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Edmund Spenser: The poets' scrolls...

Edmund Spenser: The poets' scrolls...

The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by...

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