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St Teresa of Avila: Accustom yourself continually...

St Teresa of Avila: Accustom yourself continually...

Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Tis a rule...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Tis a rule...

'Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.

Source: Letters and Social Aims,...

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Richard Wright: Men can starve...

Richard Wright: Men can starve...

Men can starve from lack of self-realization as much as they can from lack of bread.

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Stephen King: Talent in cheaper...

Stephen King: Talent in cheaper...

Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard...

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Richard Cecil: Self-will so ardent...

Richard Cecil: Self-will so ardent...

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit...

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Karl Popper: Piecemeal social engineering...

Karl Popper: Piecemeal social engineering...

Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of...

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George Santayana: Those who cannot...

George Santayana: Those who cannot...

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Source: In Quotable...

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Ernest Renan: Man makes holy...

Ernest Renan: Man makes holy...

Man makes holy what he believes, as he makes beautiful what he loves.

Source: In...

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Diogenes: A man should...

Diogenes: A man should...

A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire; not too near, lest he burn; not too far off, lest he...

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Chuang-tzu: He who knows...

Chuang-tzu: He who knows...

He who knows he is a fool is not the biggest fool. He who knows he is confused is not in the worst...

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Ludwig Wittgenstein: I sit astride...

Ludwig Wittgenstein: I sit astride...

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at...

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Henry Highland Garnet: Let your motto...

Henry Highland Garnet: Let your motto...

Let your motto be resistance! resistance! RESISTANCE! No oppressed people have ever secured their liberty without...

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Mickey Spillane: I'm a commercial...

Mickey Spillane: I'm a commercial...

I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one...

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Tom Sharpe: I have yet...

Tom Sharpe: I have yet...

I have yet to met a liberal who can withstand the attrition of prolonged discussion of the...

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Malcolm Bradbury: Culture is a...

Malcolm Bradbury: Culture is a...

Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.

Source: In The...

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Paul Theroux: Fiction gives us...

Paul Theroux: Fiction gives us...

Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.

Source: In NY Times, 28 Jul...

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Douglas Coupland: If you don't...

Douglas Coupland: If you don't...

If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a...

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Channing Pollock: Calm self-confidence is...

Channing Pollock: Calm self-confidence is...

Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from...

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A A Milne: One of the...

A A Milne: One of the...

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting...

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Queen Victoria: A strange, horrible...

Queen Victoria: A strange, horrible...

A strange, horrible business, but I suppose good enough for Shakespeare's day.

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