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Charles Horton Cooley: To cease to...

Charles Horton Cooley: To cease to...

To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration.

Source: Human Nature and the Social...

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E Franklin Frazier: The Negro does...

E Franklin Frazier: The Negro does...

The Negro does not want love. He wants justice . . . I believe it would be better for the Negro's soul to be seared...

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E Franklin Frazier: The closer a...

E Franklin Frazier: The closer a...

The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.

Source:...

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Christiaan Barnard: I don't believe...

Christiaan Barnard: I don't believe...

I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we...

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Han Suyin: There is nothing...

Han Suyin: There is nothing...

There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.

Source: A Many Spendored...

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Stanislaw Lem: Faith is, at...

Stanislaw Lem: Faith is, at...

Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.

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Friedrich Nietzsche: Every extension of...

Friedrich Nietzsche: Every extension of...

Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious.

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Friedrich Nietzsche: What then in...

Friedrich Nietzsche: What then in...

What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? --They are the irrefutable errors of...

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Joyce Carol Oates: Our enemy is...

Joyce Carol Oates: Our enemy is...

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Source:...

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Helen Hunt Jackson: Find me the...

Helen Hunt Jackson: Find me the...

Find me the men on earth who care
Enough for faith or creed today
To seek a barren wilderness
For simple...

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Georges Bernanos: The world is...

Georges Bernanos: The world is...

The world is eaten up by boredom. . . . It is like dust. You go about and never notice, you breathe it in . . . . It...

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C P Snow: Advertising degrades the...

C P Snow: Advertising degrades the...

Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose.

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C P Snow: The pursuit of...

C P Snow: The pursuit of...

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find...

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C P Snow: Science is the...

C P Snow: Science is the...

Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Anita Loos: I'm furious about...

Anita Loos: I'm furious about...

I'm furious about the Women's Liberationists. They keep getting up on soapboxes and proclaiming that women are...

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Willa Cather: I tell you...

Willa Cather: I tell you...

I tell you there is such a thing as creative hate.

Source: The Song of the Lark,...

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Carson McCullers: Our hunger for...

Carson McCullers: Our hunger for...

Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us [Americans] almost like a national disease. Our literature...

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Carson McCullers: The mind is...

Carson McCullers: The mind is...

The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the...

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Carson McCullers: There's nothing that...

Carson McCullers: There's nothing that...

There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old...

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Hosea Ballou: Education commences at...

Hosea Ballou: Education commences at...

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the...

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