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Rod Steiger: Communication without a...

Rod Steiger: Communication without a...

Communication without a purpose is artistic masturbation.

Source: In Webster's...

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Wole Soyinka: My father used...

Wole Soyinka: My father used...

My father used to tell me stories before I fell asleep. When the children would gather, at a certain point, I had a...

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Luigi Pirandello: I present myself...

Luigi Pirandello: I present myself...

I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.

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Ethel Watts Mumford: A man of...

Ethel Watts Mumford: A man of...

A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.

Source: In Oxford...

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Measure not the...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Measure not the...

Measure not the work
Until the day's out and the labour done,
Then bring your...

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William Cowper: Fanaticism, the false...

William Cowper: Fanaticism, the false...

Fanaticism, the false fire of an overheated mind.

Source: In Correct Quotes for...

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Virgil: Time bears away...

Virgil: Time bears away...

Time bears away all things, even the mind.

Source: Eclogues.
-- Virgil, (Oct 15...

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Frances Watkins Harper: The true aim...

Frances Watkins Harper: The true aim...

The true aim of female education should be, not a development of one or two, but all the faculties of the human soul,...

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John Clare: The present is...

John Clare: The present is...

The present is the funeral of the past,
And man the living sepulchre of life.


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Thomas Gray: Alas! regardless of...

Thomas Gray: Alas! regardless of...

Alas! regardless of their doom,
The little victims play!
No sense have they of ills to come
Nor care...

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Fulke Greville: Taste may be...

Fulke Greville: Taste may be...

Taste may be compared to that exquisite sense of the bee, which instantly discovers and extracts the quintessence of...

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Richard Armour: Until Eve arrived,...

Richard Armour: Until Eve arrived,...

Until Eve arrived, this was a man's world.

Source: In Sisterhood is Powerful.
--...

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Edith Sitwell: I have often...

Edith Sitwell: I have often...

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty. . . . But I am too busy thinking about...

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Christopher Fry: I know your...

Christopher Fry: I know your...

I know your cause is lost, but in the heart
Of all right causes is a cause that cannot...

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David Mamet: The poker player...

David Mamet: The poker player...

The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that,...

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Christopher Marlowe: Where both deliberate,...

Christopher Marlowe: Where both deliberate,...

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

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Christopher Marlowe: It lies not...

Christopher Marlowe: It lies not...

It lies not in our power to love or hate,
For will in us is over-ruled by fate.


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Wilson Mizner: Life's a tough...

Wilson Mizner: Life's a tough...

Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.

Source: In...

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Wilson Mizner: If you steal...

Wilson Mizner: If you steal...

If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.

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William Wycherley: Go to your...

William Wycherley: Go to your...

Go to your business, I say, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.

Source:...

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