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David Riesman: If you want...

David Riesman: If you want...

If you want to get out of medicine the fullest enjoyment, be students all your lives.

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E Franklin Frazier: Education in the...

E Franklin Frazier: Education in the...

Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information.

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John Abernethy: We must adopt...

John Abernethy: We must adopt...

We must adopt loathsome diseases for our familiar associates, or we shall never be thoroughly acquainted with their...

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Harold Wilson: The main essentials...

Harold Wilson: The main essentials...

The main essentials of a successful prime minister [are] sleep and a sense of history.

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David Lloyd George: A politician is...

David Lloyd George: A politician is...

A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a...

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A J Balfour: He has only...

A J Balfour: He has only...

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the even more refined accomplishments of skipping...

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Charles Sumner: Nothing from man's...

Charles Sumner: Nothing from man's...

Nothing from man's hands, no law, nor constitution, can be final. Truth alone is final.

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Pericles: For famous men...

Pericles: For famous men...

For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.

Source: History of the...

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William Pitt the Elder: The atrocious crime...

William Pitt the Elder: The atrocious crime...

The atrocious crime of being a young man . . . I shall neither attempt to palliate nor...

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Cesare Lombroso: The ignorant man...

Cesare Lombroso: The ignorant man...

The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand.

Source: The Man of...

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Elizabeth Kenny: The record of...

Elizabeth Kenny: The record of...

The record of one's life must needs prove more interesting to him who writes it than to him who reads what has been...

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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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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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Sydney Smith: He not only...

Sydney Smith: He not only...

He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop.

Source: In Webster's...

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Marianne Williamson: Birth is violent,...

Marianne Williamson: Birth is violent,...

Birth is violent, whether it be the birth of a child or the birth of an idea.

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Lemuel B Haynes: Had the devil...

Lemuel B Haynes: Had the devil...

Had the devil come to our first parents personally and unmasked, they would have more easily seen the...

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Eric Butterworth: Our job is...

Eric Butterworth: Our job is...

Our job is not to set things right but to see them right.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Sir Walter Scott: Oh what a...

Sir Walter Scott: Oh what a...

Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!

Source: In The...

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Edith Wharton: I have never...

Edith Wharton: I have never...

I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political...

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Willa Cather: Give the people...

Willa Cather: Give the people...

Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.

Source: On Writing,...

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