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Remember the waterfront...

Remember the waterfront...

Remember the waterfront shack with the sign Fresh Fish Sold Here. Of course it's fresh, we're on the ocean. Of course...

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If you join...

If you join...

If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go along to get along; do your best and when...

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TV gives everyone...

TV gives everyone...

TV gives everyone an image, but radio gives birth to a million images in a million brains.

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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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Walter Gropius: If your contribution...

Walter Gropius: If your contribution...

If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your...

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James McNeill Whistler: If the man...

James McNeill Whistler: If the man...

If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king of...

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J Robert Oppenheimer: The open society,...

J Robert Oppenheimer: The open society,...

The open society, the unrestricted access to knowledge, the unplanned and uninhibited association of men for its...

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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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David Cronenberg: When you're in...

David Cronenberg: When you're in...

When you're in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the muck but you...

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Andre Malraux: The crucial discovery...

Andre Malraux: The crucial discovery...

The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a...

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Michael Crichton: Scientific power is...

Michael Crichton: Scientific power is...

Scientific power is like inherited wealth; attained without discipline. You read about what others have done, and you...

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Michael Crichton: If true computer...

Michael Crichton: If true computer...

If true computer music were ever written, it would only be listened to by other computers.

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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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Daniel Defoe: Middle age is...

Daniel Defoe: Middle age is...

Middle age is youth without its levity,
And age without decay.


Source: In...

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Sun Tzu [Wu]: Therefore the skilful...

Sun Tzu [Wu]: Therefore the skilful...

Therefore the skilful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting; he captures their cities without laying...

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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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Van Wyck Brooks: Magnanimous people have...

Van Wyck Brooks: Magnanimous people have...

Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find...

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Stephen Leacock: What we call...

Stephen Leacock: What we call...

What we call creative work ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. . . . I imagine that Thomas Edison...

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