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Jonas Salk: When I worked...

Jonas Salk: When I worked...

When I worked on the polio vaccine, I had a theory. I guided each [experiment] by imagining myself in the phenomenon...

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Leonardo da Vinci: Patience serves as...

Leonardo da Vinci: Patience serves as...

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold...

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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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Neil Simon: Sports is the...

Neil Simon: Sports is the...

Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the...

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Dante: Art, as far...

Dante: Art, as far...

Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's...

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John Donne: No man is...

John Donne: No man is...

No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a part of a continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away...

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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: Sweete Themmes! runne...

Edmund Spenser: Sweete Themmes! runne...

Sweete Themmes! runne softly, till I end my Song.

Source: Prothalamion.
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Richard Armour: [John Foster Dulles]...

Richard Armour: [John Foster Dulles]...

[John Foster Dulles] invented Brinkmanship, the most popular game since Monopoly.

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Countee Cullen: Your love to...

Countee Cullen: Your love to...

Your love to me was like an unread book . . .

Source: Bright Bindings, The Black...

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Robert Frost: A poem. ....

Robert Frost: A poem. ....

A poem. . . begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. . . . It finds the...

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Scott Alexander: Understand that most...

Scott Alexander: Understand that most...

Understand that most problems are a good sign. Problems indicate that progress is being made, wheels are turning, you...

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Caius Valerius Catullus: For the godly...

Caius Valerius Catullus: For the godly...

For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so.

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Caius Valerius Catullus: It is difficult...

Caius Valerius Catullus: It is difficult...

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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John Ashbery: There is the...

John Ashbery: There is the...

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation...

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Philip James Bailey: We live in...

Philip James Bailey: We live in...

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives...

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Andrew Marvell: This delicious Solitude....

Andrew Marvell: This delicious Solitude....

This delicious Solitude.

Source: The Garden.
-- Andrew Marvell, (Mar 31...

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Andrew Marvell: Who can foretell...

Andrew Marvell: Who can foretell...

Who can foretell for what high cause
This darling of the Gods was born?


Source:...

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Emma Lazarus: Give me your...

Emma Lazarus: Give me your...

Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming...

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Tobias Smollett: I think for...

Tobias Smollett: I think for...

I think for my part one half of the nation is mad - and the other not very sound.

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