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I expect nothing....

I expect nothing....

I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free.

Source:
-- Nikos Kazantzakis,...

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One cannot collect...

One cannot collect...

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if...

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We tend not...

We tend not...

We tend not to choose the unknown, which might be a shock or a disappointment or simply a little difficult to cope...

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I do not...

I do not...

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone...

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Great speeches have...

Great speeches have...

Great speeches have always had great soundbites. The problem now is that the young technicians who put together...

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As for pictures...

As for pictures...

As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at...

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Fools make researches...

Fools make researches...

Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.

Source: A Modern Utopia, ch. 2,...

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That winter two...

That winter two...

That winter two things happened which made me see that the world, the flesh, and the devil were going to be more...

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Would that there...

Would that there...

Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful...

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There is no...

There is no...

There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Source: In

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Man spends his...

Man spends his...

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing...

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Gutenberg made everybody...

Gutenberg made everybody...

Gutenberg made everybody a reader. Xerox makes everybody a publisher.

Source: In...

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Wit is the...

Wit is the...

Wit is the unexpected explosion of thought.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Pain is life...

Pain is life...

Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.

Source: Letter to Bernard...

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Borrowers of books...

Borrowers of books...

Borrowers of books -- those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd...

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Newspapers always excite...

Newspapers always excite...

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of...

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Damn the age....

Damn the age....

Damn the age. I'll write for antiquity.

Source: English Wits, L. Russell.
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Shakespeare is one...

Shakespeare is one...

Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a...

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Nothing puzzles me...

Nothing puzzles me...

Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think about...

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A laugh is...

A laugh is...

A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.

Source: In Pearls of Wisdom, ed....

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