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Pericles: Our love of...

Pericles: Our love of...

Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us...

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William E Gladstone: No man ever...

William E Gladstone: No man ever...

No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.

Source: In...

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Ruth Westheimer: Don't stint on...

Ruth Westheimer: Don't stint on...

Don't stint on foreplay -- or afterplay. Be inventive!

Source: In Words of Wisdom,...

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Helene Deutsch: The embattled gates...

Helene Deutsch: The embattled gates...

The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself: That is not...

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Jean Baudrillard: Everywhere one seeks...

Jean Baudrillard: Everywhere one seeks...

Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in...

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William James Mayo: Lord, deliver me...

William James Mayo: Lord, deliver me...

Lord, deliver me from the man who never makes a mistake, and also from the man who makes the same mistake...

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Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco: Irony is the...

Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco: Irony is the...

Irony is the hygiene of the mind.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Erica Jong: I have accepted...

Erica Jong: I have accepted...

I have accepted fear as a part of life -- specifically the fear of change. . . . I have gone ahead despite the...

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Rachel Field: The public is...

Rachel Field: The public is...

The public is more easily swayed by persons than by principles.

Source: All This &...

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Tom Sharpe: We must not...

Tom Sharpe: We must not...

We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

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Margery Allingham: Chemists employed by...

Margery Allingham: Chemists employed by...

Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can find it in shreds of cloth, in the...

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Margery Allingham: In common with...

Margery Allingham: In common with...

In common with many Christians of the classic type he felt sincerely safer and more at ease when he had given away all...

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Jean Genet: To achieve harmony...

Jean Genet: To achieve harmony...

To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.

Source: The Thief's...

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Elias Canetti: It doesn't matter...

Elias Canetti: It doesn't matter...

It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

Source:...

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Mary Wortley Montagu: We travellers are...

Mary Wortley Montagu: We travellers are...

We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and...

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George Orwell: For a creative...

George Orwell: For a creative...

For a creative writer possession of the truth is less important than emotional sincerity.

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Booth Tarkington: Mystics always hope...

Booth Tarkington: Mystics always hope...

Mystics always hope that science will some day overtake them.

Source: Looking...

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Marguerite Duras: Journalism without a...

Marguerite Duras: Journalism without a...

Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely...

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Anthony Hope: Bourgeois,' I observed,...

Anthony Hope: Bourgeois,' I observed,...

'Bourgeois,' I observed, 'is an epithet which the riff-raff apply to what is respectable, and the aristocracy to what...

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Carlos Fuentes: If the Soviet...

Carlos Fuentes: If the Soviet...

If the Soviet Union can give up the Brezhnev Doctrine for the Sinatra Doctrine, the United States can give up the...

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