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Agatha Christie: If one sticks...

Agatha Christie: If one sticks...

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

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Jacques Barzun: The test and...

Jacques Barzun: The test and...

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his...

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Marjorie Rosen: Which is strongest...

Marjorie Rosen: Which is strongest...

Which is strongest the reality out of which the illusion is created, the celluloid illusion itself, or the need for...

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Carl Sagan: I would be...

Carl Sagan: I would be...

I would be very ashamed of my civilization if we did not try to find out if there is life in outer...

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Diane Ravitch: The ladder was...

Diane Ravitch: The ladder was...

The ladder was there, from the gutter to the university, and for those stalwart enough to ascend it, the schools were...

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Addison Gayle, Jr: Power comes not...

Addison Gayle, Jr: Power comes not...

Power comes not from the barrel of a gun, but from one's awareness of his or her own cultural strength and the...

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Kingman Brewster, Jr: There is a...

Kingman Brewster, Jr: There is a...

There is a correlation between the creative and the screwball. So we must suffer the screwball...

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Kingman Brewster, Jr: The function of...

Kingman Brewster, Jr: The function of...

The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes...

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John Locke: Reading furnishes the...

John Locke: Reading furnishes the...

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read...

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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: There are two...

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: There are two...

There are two kinds of women: those who want power in the world, and those who want power in...

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Francois Rabelais: What cannot be...

Francois Rabelais: What cannot be...

What cannot be cured must be endured.

Source: Works.
-- Francois Rabelais, ( ...

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky: The cleverest of...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky: The cleverest of...

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a...

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Women's Liberation calls...

Women's Liberation calls...

Women's Liberation calls it enslavement but the real truth about the sexual revolution is that it has made of sex an...

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Readers are less...

Readers are less...

Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman other or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of...

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All propaganda or...

All propaganda or...

All propaganda or popularization involves a putting of the complex into the simple, but such a move is instantly...

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Those who have...

Those who have...

Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is...

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AIDS obliges people...

AIDS obliges people...

AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or...

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In the writing...

In the writing...

In the writing process, the more the story cooks, the better. The brain works for you even when you are at rest. I...

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Go out and...

Go out and...

Go out and speak for the inarticulate and the submerged.

Source: In Somerset...

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Effort only fully...

Effort only fully...

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

Source: In

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