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George Orwell: Doublethink means the...

George Orwell: Doublethink means the...

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of...

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Alexander Woollcott: There is no...

Alexander Woollcott: There is no...

There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.

Source: In The...

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Orson Scott Card: Your work is...

Orson Scott Card: Your work is...

Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is...

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Helen Hunt Jackson: Wounded vanity knows...

Helen Hunt Jackson: Wounded vanity knows...

Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride...

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Djuna Barnes: New York is...

Djuna Barnes: New York is...

New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical...

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James Joyce: A man of...

James Joyce: A man of...

A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of...

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Willa Cather: What was any...

Willa Cather: What was any...

What was any art but an effort to make a sheath, a mold in which to imprison for a moment the shining, elusive element...

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Isaac Singer: Our knowledge is...

Isaac Singer: Our knowledge is...

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

Source: In NY...

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Isaac Singer: When I was...

Isaac Singer: When I was...

When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a...

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Katherine Anne Porter: One of the...

Katherine Anne Porter: One of the...

One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Epicurus: So death, the...

Epicurus: So death, the...

So death, the most terrifying of ills, is nothing to us, since so long as we exist, death is not with us; but when...

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Henri Bergson: An absolute can...

Henri Bergson: An absolute can...

An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.

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Plutarch: All men whilst...

Plutarch: All men whilst...

All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his...

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Lu Yan: When occupations come...

Lu Yan: When occupations come...

When occupations come to us we must accept them; when things come to us we must understand them from the ground...

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Doug Horton: Life is good...

Doug Horton: Life is good...

Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.

Source: In...

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Doug Horton: Desperation is like...

Doug Horton: Desperation is like...

Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong...

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David Livingstone: I will go...

David Livingstone: I will go...

I will go anywhere, as long as it be forward.

Source: In Great Business Quotations,...

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Thomas Merton: Power always protects...

Thomas Merton: Power always protects...

Power always protects the good of some at the expense of all others.

Source: Faith...

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St Teresa of Avila: . . ....

St Teresa of Avila: . . ....

. . . about the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don't go by one text...

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Israel Zangwill: No Jew was...

Israel Zangwill: No Jew was...

No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man.

Source:...

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