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Thurgood Marshall: A child born...

Thurgood Marshall: A child born...

A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi . . . has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to...

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Etty Hillesum: Life cannot be...

Etty Hillesum: Life cannot be...

Life cannot be captured in a few axioms. And that is just what I keep trying to do. But it won't work, for life is...

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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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A Bartlett Giamatti: Teaching is an...

A Bartlett Giamatti: Teaching is an...

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless...

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E L Doctorow: Writing is an...

E L Doctorow: Writing is an...

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

Source: In...

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Mary Catherine Bateson: There are few...

Mary Catherine Bateson: There are few...

There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.

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Carl Sagan: One of the...

Carl Sagan: One of the...

One of the greatest gifts adults can give -- to their offspring and to their society -- is to read to...

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Stephen Leacock: Astronomy teaches the...

Stephen Leacock: Astronomy teaches the...

Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets.

Source: Literary...

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Jane Harrison: To be womanly...

Jane Harrison: To be womanly...

To be womanly is one thing, and one only; it is to be sensitive to man, to be highly endowed with the sex instinct; to...

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Michel de Certeau: The media transforms...

Michel de Certeau: The media transforms...

The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks...

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Freda Adler: Major social movements....

Freda Adler: Major social movements....

Major social movements. . . eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have...

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bell hooks: The academy is...

bell hooks: The academy is...

The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created.

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Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus: Poison is in...

Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus: Poison is in...

Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a...

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Jeremy Collier: Perpetual pushing and...

Jeremy Collier: Perpetual pushing and...

Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives...

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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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Friedrich Nietzsche: Many a man...

Friedrich Nietzsche: Many a man...

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good.

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Stanislaw Lec: What a pity...

Stanislaw Lec: What a pity...

What a pity the only way to heaven is in a hearse.

Source:
-- Stanislaw Lec,...

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There is no...

There is no...

There is no top. There are always further heights to reach.

Source: In The...

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Steven Seagal: You can take...

Steven Seagal: You can take...

You can take away the money and the fame. I don't look at myself as any of those things.

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Isaac Asimov: We are reaching...

Isaac Asimov: We are reaching...

We are reaching the stage where the problems we must solve are going to become insoluble without computers. I do not...

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