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Socrates: I decided that...

Socrates: I decided that...

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration,...

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Boris Pasternak: In every generation...

Boris Pasternak: In every generation...

In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.

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Joyce Carol Oates: Our house is...

Joyce Carol Oates: Our house is...

Our house is made of glass . . . and our lives are made of glass; and there is nothing we can do to protect...

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Helen Hunt Jackson: Who longest waits...

Helen Hunt Jackson: Who longest waits...

Who longest waits most surely wins.

Source: In The Book of Positive Quotations, by...

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Sir Walter Scott: When a man...

Sir Walter Scott: When a man...

When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it...

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Sir Walter Scott: The half hour...

Sir Walter Scott: The half hour...

The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my...

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Djuna Barnes: Time is a...

Djuna Barnes: Time is a...

Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg...

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James Joyce: A man of...

James Joyce: A man of...

A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of...

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Stephen Crane: Every sin is...

Stephen Crane: Every sin is...

Every sin is the result of collaboration.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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C P Snow: I grant you...

C P Snow: I grant you...

'I grant you that he's not two-faced,' I said. 'But what's the use of that when the one face he has got is so...

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C P Snow: I was moving...

C P Snow: I was moving...

I was moving among two groups . . . who had almost ceased to communicate at all, who in intellectual, moral, and...

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Edith Wharton: In any really...

Edith Wharton: In any really...

In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.

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Carson McCullers: The writer by...

Carson McCullers: The writer by...

The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes...

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Katherine Anne Porter: Our being is...

Katherine Anne Porter: Our being is...

Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do....

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Heraclitus of Ephesus: The road uphill...

Heraclitus of Ephesus: The road uphill...

The road uphill and the road downhill are one and the same.

Source: In Pearls of...

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Mencius: There is no...

Mencius: There is no...

There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.

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Giordano Bruno: Time takes all...

Giordano Bruno: Time takes all...

Time takes all and gives all.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith...

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Ernest Renan: The simplest schoolboy...

Ernest Renan: The simplest schoolboy...

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with facts for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his...

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John Bradshaw: It is a...

John Bradshaw: It is a...

It is a mark of soulfulness to be present in the here and now. When we are present, we are not fabricating inner...

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Albert Camus: We are not...

Albert Camus: We are not...

We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make...

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