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The trouble with...

The trouble with...

The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to...

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Travel gives a...

Travel gives a...

Travel gives a character of experience to our knowledge, and brings the figures on the tablet of memory into strong...

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The test of...

The test of...

The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.

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Great art is...

Great art is...

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

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If I had...

If I had...

If I had to characterize one quality as the genius of feminist thought, culture, and action, it would be the...

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Jack Kerouac: We're really all...

Jack Kerouac: We're really all...

We're really all of us bottomly broke. I haven't had time to work in weeks.

Source:...

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Boris Pasternak: The whole of...

Boris Pasternak: The whole of...

The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.

Source: In...

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Maria Edgeworth: When one illusion...

Maria Edgeworth: When one illusion...

When one illusion vanishes, another shall appear, and, still leading me forward towards an horizon that retreats as I...

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Maria Edgeworth: How success changes...

Maria Edgeworth: How success changes...

How success changes the opinion of men!

Source: The Will, 1800.
-- Maria...

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Mary McLeod Bethune: The true worth...

Mary McLeod Bethune: The true worth...

The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood.

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Friedrich Nietzsche: Love is a...

Friedrich Nietzsche: Love is a...

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as the are not.

Source:...

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Derek Bok: If you think...

Derek Bok: If you think...

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Source: In 1,911 Best Things...

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Diane Ravitch: The ladder was...

Diane Ravitch: The ladder was...

The ladder was there, from the gutter to the university, and for those stalwart enough to ascend it, the schools were...

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Malcolm Bradbury: A conventional good...

Malcolm Bradbury: A conventional good...

A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an...

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Orson Scott Card: Humanity does not...

Orson Scott Card: Humanity does not...

Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, then happiness...

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Mark Twain: Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity...

Mark Twain: Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity...

Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity -- these are strictly confined to man; he invented them. Among the higher animals...

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Kevin Costner: I'm a big...

Kevin Costner: I'm a big...

I'm a big fan of dreams. Unfortunately, dreams are our first casualty in life -- people seem to give them up, quicker...

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J Robert Oppenheimer: Both the man...

J Robert Oppenheimer: Both the man...

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by...

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J Robert Oppenheimer: This is a...

J Robert Oppenheimer: This is a...

This is a world in which each of us, knowing his limitations, knowing the evils of superficiality and the terrors of...

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George V: How is the...

George V: How is the...

How is the Empire?

Source: In The Times, 21 Jan 1936
-- George V, (Jun 3...

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