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Doctors don't know...

Doctors don't know...

Doctors don't know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live 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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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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Most people aren't...

Most people aren't...

Most people aren't appreciated enough, and the bravest things we do in our lives are usually known only to ourselves....

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James McNeill Whistler: To say to...

James McNeill Whistler: To say to...

To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the...

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Lewis Thomas: We pass the...

Lewis Thomas: We pass the...

We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the...

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Reading is sometimes...

Reading is sometimes...

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

Source: Friends in...

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For still the...

For still the...

For still the world prevail'd, and its dread laugh,
Which scarce the firm philosopher can...

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Explain it as...

Explain it as...

Explain it as we may, a martial strain will urge a man into the front rank of battle sooner than an argument, and a...

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Carl Linnaeus: Linnea.. . ....

Carl Linnaeus: Linnea.. . ....

Linnea.. . . A plant of Lapland, lowly, insignificant, disregarded, flowering but for a brief space -- from Linnaeus...

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Ariel Durant: One of the...

Ariel Durant: One of the...

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to...

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When I stand...

When I stand...

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and...

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In isolation I...

In isolation I...

In isolation I ruthlessly plow the deep silences, seeking my opportunities like a miner seeking veins of treasures. In...

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Vladimir Mayakovsky: Art is not...

Vladimir Mayakovsky: Art is not...

Art is not a mirror to reflect the world, but a hammer with which to shape it.

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The epic implications...

The epic implications...

The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with...

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If a book...

If a book...

If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three...

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The ingenuities we...

The ingenuities we...

The ingenuities we practice in order to appear admirable to ourselves would suffice to invent the telephone twice over...

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Laurence J Peter: If at first...

Laurence J Peter: If at first...

If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Source: In Friendly Advice, ed. Jon...

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Love as if...

Love as if...

Love as if you liked yourself, and it may happen.

Source:
-- Marge Piercy, (Mar...

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A good conversationalist...

A good conversationalist...

A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to...

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