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Ruth Westheimer: Don't criticize in...

Ruth Westheimer: Don't criticize in...

Don't criticize in the sack. Discuss constructively later.

Source: In Words of...

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Abraham Maslow: A musician must...

Abraham Maslow: A musician must...

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself....

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Abraham Maslow: We are not...

Abraham Maslow: We are not...

We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction,...

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Ninon de Lenclos: Feminine virtue is...

Ninon de Lenclos: Feminine virtue is...

Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.

Source: c. 1660,...

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George Canning: A steady patriot...

George Canning: A steady patriot...

A steady patriot of the World alone,
The friend of every country but his own.


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Robert Walpole: All those men...

Robert Walpole: All those men...

All those men have their price.

Source: In Memoirs of Sir Robert Walpole, by W....

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Julius Caesar: All bad precedents...

Julius Caesar: All bad precedents...

All bad precedents began as justifiable measures.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Alexander Hamilton: Real firmness is...

Alexander Hamilton: Real firmness is...

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.

Source: In Correct...

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Havelock Ellis: However well organized...

Havelock Ellis: However well organized...

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

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Joyce Brothers: Accept that all...

Joyce Brothers: Accept that all...

Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can -- and surely will at times -- fail. I think we should follow a...

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Patrick Henry: Perfect freedom is...

Patrick Henry: Perfect freedom is...

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of...

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Alexander Woollcott: All the things...

Alexander Woollcott: All the things...

All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal, or fattening.

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Anthony Burgess: The trouble began...

Anthony Burgess: The trouble began...

The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six...

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Anthony Burgess: Blockbusting fiction is...

Anthony Burgess: Blockbusting fiction is...

Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted....

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Alexandre Dumas, p?re: Only a man...

Alexandre Dumas, p?re: Only a man...

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

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Erich Segal: Love means never...

Erich Segal: Love means never...

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Source: Love Story, 1970.
-- Erich...

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Lillian Smith: When you stop...

Lillian Smith: When you stop...

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to...

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Andre Gide: It is better...

Andre Gide: It is better...

It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.

Source:...

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Edward Hoagland: Many people have...

Edward Hoagland: Many people have...

Many people have believed that they were Chosen, but none more baldly than the Texans.

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Olive Schreiner: [Finishing schools] are...

Olive Schreiner: [Finishing schools] are...

[Finishing schools] are nicely adapted machines for experimenting on the question, Into how little space a human...

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