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Lewis Thomas: Ants are so...

Lewis Thomas: Ants are so...

Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch...

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Isaac Asimov: If my doctor...

Isaac Asimov: If my doctor...

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little...

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Isaac Asimov: We are reaching...

Isaac Asimov: We are reaching...

We are reaching the stage where the problems we must solve are going to become insoluble without computers. I do not...

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Ray Kroc: It was not...

Ray Kroc: It was not...

It was not her sex appeal but the obvious relish with which she devoured the hamburger that made my pulse begin to...

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Novalis: A character is...

Novalis: A character is...

A character is a completely fashioned will.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Terence Rattigan: When you're between...

Terence Rattigan: When you're between...

When you're between any sort of devil and the deep blue sea, the deep blue sea sometimes looks very...

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Jean-Paul Sartre: Evil is the...

Jean-Paul Sartre: Evil is the...

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

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Terence Rattigan: When you're between...

Terence Rattigan: When you're between...

When you're between any sort of devil and the deep blue sea, the deep blue sea sometimes looks very...

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Michel Foucault: The judges of...

Michel Foucault: The judges of...

The judges of normality are present everywhere. We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the...

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Gertrude Stein: The unreal is...

Gertrude Stein: The unreal is...

The unreal is natural, so natural that it makes of unreality the most natural of anything natural. That is what...

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Agatha Christie: If one sticks...

Agatha Christie: If one sticks...

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

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Friedrich Nietzsche: How good bad...

Friedrich Nietzsche: How good bad...

How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy.

Source:...

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J R R Tolkien: His house was...

J R R Tolkien: His house was...

His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and...

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Flannery O'Connor: Conviction without experience...

Flannery O'Connor: Conviction without experience...

Conviction without experience makes for harshness.

Source: The Habit of Being,...

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Sholom Aleichem: The rich swell...

Sholom Aleichem: The rich swell...

The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Publilius Syrus: It is a...

Publilius Syrus: It is a...

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Agatha Christie: The popular idea...

Agatha Christie: The popular idea...

The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of...

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Aldous Huxley: Most of one's...

Aldous Huxley: Most of one's...

Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Source: Mr....

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George Eliot: Iteration, like friction,...

George Eliot: Iteration, like friction,...

Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.

Source:...

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John Steinbeck: A journey is...

John Steinbeck: A journey is...

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

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