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Claude Levi-Strauss: Enthusiastic partisans of...

Claude Levi-Strauss: Enthusiastic partisans of...

Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failing to recognize. . . the immense riches...

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Charles Horton Cooley: In most cases...

Charles Horton Cooley: In most cases...

In most cases a favorite writer is more with us in his book than he ever could have been in the flesh; since, being a...

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Charles Horton Cooley: The need to...

Charles Horton Cooley: The need to...

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in...

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Emile Durkheim: The man whose...

Emile Durkheim: The man whose...

The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings. His passions...

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Charles Horton Cooley: There is hardly...

Charles Horton Cooley: There is hardly...

There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some...

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David Riesman: It is no...

David Riesman: It is no...

It is no longer clear which way is up even if one wants to rise.

Source: In...

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John Abernethy: Private patients, if...

John Abernethy: Private patients, if...

Private patients, if they do not like me, can go elsewhere; but the poor devils in the hospital I am bound to take...

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Christiaan Barnard: Suffering isn't ennobling,...

Christiaan Barnard: Suffering isn't ennobling,...

Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.

Source: In NY Times, 28 Apr 1985.
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August Bier: A smart mother...

August Bier: A smart mother...

A smart mother makes often a better diagnosis than a poor doctor.

Source: In...

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William Lyon Phelps: A well-ordered life...

William Lyon Phelps: A well-ordered life...

A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it...

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Theodore Isaac Rubin: The problem is...

Theodore Isaac Rubin: The problem is...

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a...

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Winston Churchill: I cannot forecast...

Winston Churchill: I cannot forecast...

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma; but perhaps there...

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Rudolph Fisher: He's from 'way...

Rudolph Fisher: He's from 'way...

He's from 'way down behind the sun an' ripe f' the pluckin'.

Source: City of...

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Rudolph Fisher: Angels rush in...

Rudolph Fisher: Angels rush in...

Angels rush in when fools are almost dead.

Source: Blades of Steel, 1927.
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John Mortimer: When you get...

John Mortimer: When you get...

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the...

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Anne Bronte: But he that...

Anne Bronte: But he that...

But he that dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.


Source: The...

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Margaret Halsey: Some persons talk...

Margaret Halsey: Some persons talk...

Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.

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James Fenimore Cooper: The common faults...

James Fenimore Cooper: The common faults...

The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of...

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Gustave Flaubert: Nothing is more...

Gustave Flaubert: Nothing is more...

Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed it.

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Hermann Hesse: Everything becomes a...

Hermann Hesse: Everything becomes a...

Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.

Source: In...

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