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Alex Haley: Roots is not...

Alex Haley: Roots is not...

Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.

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Christopher Morley: The real purpose...

Christopher Morley: The real purpose...

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

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Mark Twain: By trying we...

Mark Twain: By trying we...

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man's I mean.

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Mark Twain: Get you facts...

Mark Twain: Get you facts...

Get you facts first, and then you can distort 'em as much as you please.

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Mark Twain: George Washington, as...

Mark Twain: George Washington, as...

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even...

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Thomas Wolfe: The surest cure...

Thomas Wolfe: The surest cure...

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.

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George MacDonald: No man ever...

George MacDonald: No man ever...

No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the...

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Jane Austen: Those who do...

Jane Austen: Those who do...

Those who do not complain are never pitied.

Source: Pride & Prejudice, 1813.
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Elie Wiesel: There may be...

Elie Wiesel: There may be...

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to...

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James Allen: To desire is...

James Allen: To desire is...

To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky: If you wish...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky: If you wish...

If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man . . .you will get better results if you just watch...

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Aldous Huxley: Thanks to words,...

Aldous Huxley: Thanks to words,...

Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of...

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Douglas Coupland: I like doing...

Douglas Coupland: I like doing...

I like doing radio because it's so intimate. The moment people hear your voice, you're inside there heads, not only...

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S J Perelman: The fact is...

S J Perelman: The fact is...

The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. . . . You are what you...

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S J Perelman: For years I...

S J Perelman: For years I...

For years I have let dentists ride roughshod over my teeth: I have been sawed, hacked, chopped, whittled, bewitched,...

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Channing Pollock: Home is the...

Channing Pollock: Home is the...

Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments.

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Channing Pollock: A critic is...

Channing Pollock: A critic is...

A critic is a legless man who teaches running.

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S J Perelman: When you try...

S J Perelman: When you try...

When you try to be funny in every line, you place an intolerable burden not only on yourself but on the reader. You...

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Channing Pollock: No man in...

Channing Pollock: No man in...

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

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Channing Pollock: Each generation produces...

Channing Pollock: Each generation produces...

Each generation produces its squad of moderns with peashooters to attack Gibraltar.

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