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Friedrich Nietzsche: The desire to...

Friedrich Nietzsche: The desire to...

The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does...

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Isaac Singer: Every creator painfully...

Isaac Singer: Every creator painfully...

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate...

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Georg Hegel: We do not...

Georg Hegel: We do not...

We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to...

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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: The one thing...

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: The one thing...

The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.

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Morarji Desai: It is easy...

Morarji Desai: It is easy...

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are...

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Dwight D Eisenhower: Dollars and guns...

Dwight D Eisenhower: Dollars and guns...

Dollars and guns are no substitutes for brains and will power.

Source: Radio...

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Orson Scott Card: Humanity does not...

Orson Scott Card: Humanity does not...

Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, then happiness...

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Charlotte Forten Grimke: I wonder that...

Charlotte Forten Grimke: I wonder that...

I wonder that every colored person is not a misanthrope. Surely we have everything to make us hate...

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Martha Carey Thomas: One thing I...

Martha Carey Thomas: One thing I...

One thing I am determined on is that by the time I die my brain shall weigh as much as a man's if study and learning...

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bell hooks: Being oppressed means...

bell hooks: Being oppressed means...

Being oppressed means the absence of choices.

Source: Feminist Theory, ch.1,...

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Mark Twain: The radical invents...

Mark Twain: The radical invents...

The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.

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Charles Simmons: It is a...

Charles Simmons: It is a...

It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided...

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Lin Yutang: It is not...

Lin Yutang: It is not...

It is not so much what you believe in that matters, it?s more the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate...

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J B S Haldane: Cancer's a Funny...

J B S Haldane: Cancer's a Funny...

Cancer's a Funny Thing:
I wish I had the voice of Homer
To sing of rectal carcinoma,
Which kills a lot more...

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Sun Tzu [Wu]: Simulated disorder postulates...

Sun Tzu [Wu]: Simulated disorder postulates...

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates...

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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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Jean Genet: What we need...

Jean Genet: What we need...

What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.

Source: The Blacks, 1959.
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Florence Scovel Shinn: Every great work,...

Florence Scovel Shinn: Every great work,...

Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and...

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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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Betty Smith: The difference between...

Betty Smith: The difference between...

The difference between rich and poor is that the poor do everything with their own hands and the rich hire hands to do...

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