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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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Agatha Christie: The popular idea...

Agatha Christie: The popular idea...

The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of...

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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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Georg Hegel: It is a...

Georg Hegel: It is a...

It is a matter of perfect indifference where a thing originated; the only question is: Is it true in and for...

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Mary McLeod Bethune: The true worth...

Mary McLeod Bethune: The true worth...

The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood.

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Michael Crichton: Absence of proof...

Michael Crichton: Absence of proof...

Absence of proof is not proof of absence.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Norman Douglas: What is all...

Norman Douglas: What is all...

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings -- they are so trite,...

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Jean-Paul Sartre: When the rich...

Jean-Paul Sartre: When the rich...

When the rich wage war it is the poor who die.

Source: Le Diable et le bon...

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Richard Lovelace: Stone walls do...

Richard Lovelace: Stone walls do...

Stone walls do not a prison make
Nor iron bars a cage;
Minds innocent and quiet take
That for an...

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Sylvester Stallone: When I was...

Sylvester Stallone: When I was...

When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric...

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Isaac Newton: If I have...

Isaac Newton: If I have...

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than any other...

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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek: [W]henever I found...

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek: [W]henever I found...

[W]henever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all...

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Lewis Thomas: The act of...

Lewis Thomas: The act of...

The act of smelling something, anything, is remarkably like the act of thinking. Immediately at the moment of...

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David Ogilvy: The most important...

David Ogilvy: The most important...

The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and...

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Ray Kroc: It was not...

Ray Kroc: It was not...

It was not her sex appeal but the obvious relish with which she devoured the hamburger that made my pulse begin to...

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Robert Bresson: The most ordinary...

Robert Bresson: The most ordinary...

The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your...

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Joseph L Mankiewicz: The difference between...

Joseph L Mankiewicz: The difference between...

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life...

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Joseph Marie De Maistre: To know how...

Joseph Marie De Maistre: To know how...

To know how to wait is the great secret of success.

Source: In Wisdom of the Ages...

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Edmund Spenser: The poets' scrolls...

Edmund Spenser: The poets' scrolls...

The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by...

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Sometimes it is...

Sometimes it is...

Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do.

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