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Alan Brien: Violence is the...

Alan Brien: Violence is the...

Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.

Source: In Punch, 7 Feb 1973.
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Justice is conscience,...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Justice is conscience,...

Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly...

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James Allen: All that a...

James Allen: All that a...

All that a man achieves and all that he falls to achieve is the direct result of his own...

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James Allen: He who would...

James Allen: He who would...

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would...

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Saul Bellow: With a novelist,...

Saul Bellow: With a novelist,...

With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - someone from whom you...

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Gaston Bachelard: Literary imagination is...

Gaston Bachelard: Literary imagination is...

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein: A new word...

Ludwig Wittgenstein: A new word...

A new word is like a fresh seed sewn on the ground of the discussion.

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Karl Popper: Good tests kill...

Karl Popper: Good tests kill...

Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again.

Source: In The...

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Ludwig Wittgenstein: I sit astride...

Ludwig Wittgenstein: I sit astride...

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at...

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Helen Hunt Jackson: The mighty are...

Helen Hunt Jackson: The mighty are...

The mighty are brought low by many a thing
Too small to name. Beneath the daisy's disk
Lies hid the pebble for...

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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: 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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Edith Wharton: After all, one...

Edith Wharton: After all, one...

After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and...

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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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Epicurus: Nothing is enough...

Epicurus: Nothing is enough...

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is to little.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Ernest Renan: In morals, truth...

Ernest Renan: In morals, truth...

In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in...

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Ernest Renan: To conceive the...

Ernest Renan: To conceive the...

To conceive the good, in fact, is not sufficient; it must be made to succeed among men. To accomplish this less pure...

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Dr. Dale E. Turner: It is important...

Dr. Dale E. Turner: It is important...

It is important to live each day with a positive perspective. It is not wise to pretend problems do not exist, but it...

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Jose Ortega y Gasset: The characteristic of...

Jose Ortega y Gasset: The characteristic of...

The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to...

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S J Perelman: You've a sharp...

S J Perelman: You've a sharp...

You've a sharp tongue in your head, Mr Essick. Look out it doesn't cut your throat.

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