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Your heaviest artillery...

Your heaviest artillery...

Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going.

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A useful definition...

A useful definition...

A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human...

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Wayne Gretzky: I played everything....

Wayne Gretzky: I played everything....

I played everything. I played lacrosse, baseball, hockey, soccer, track and field. I was a big believer that you...

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The tension between...

The tension between...

The tension between yes and no, between I can and I cannot, makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an...

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Leaves are verbs...

Leaves are verbs...

Leaves are verbs that conjugate the seasons.

Source: The Solace of Open Spaces,...

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Margot Asquith: What a pity,...

Margot Asquith: What a pity,...

What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

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[E]mbarrassment and perplexity...

[E]mbarrassment and perplexity...

[E]mbarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to be driven...

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Peter Marshall: The measure of...

Peter Marshall: The measure of...

The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek: A man has...

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek: A man has...

A man has always to be busy with his thoughts if anything is to be accomplished.

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Guillaume Apollinaire: A structure becomes...

Guillaume Apollinaire: A structure becomes...

A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in...

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Pythagoras: Strength of mind...

Pythagoras: Strength of mind...

Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.

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The difference between...

The difference between...

The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by...

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Noam Chomsky: Language is a...

Noam Chomsky: Language is a...

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of...

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Guillaume Apollinaire: The plastic virtues:...

Guillaume Apollinaire: The plastic virtues:...

The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.

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The body is...

The body is...

The body is like an elaborate metaphor. One may be able to taste and not swallow, like the anorexic, or to swallow...

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John Dewey: Failure is instructive....

John Dewey: Failure is instructive....

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his...

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Carl Sagan: If intelligence is...

Carl Sagan: If intelligence is...

If intelligence is our only edge, we must learn to use it better, to shape it, to understand its limitations and...

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Chiang Kai-Shek: The sky cannot...

Chiang Kai-Shek: The sky cannot...

The sky cannot have two suns.

Source: In Mao, by Ross Merrill, ch. 10, 1993.
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Mary Ritter Beard: The volumes which...

Mary Ritter Beard: The volumes which...

The volumes which record the history of the human race are filled with the deeds and the words of great men . . ....

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You cannot endow...

You cannot endow...

You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steamroller will not plant...

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