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The wretchedness of...

The wretchedness of...

The wretchedness of being rich is that you live with rich people. To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich...

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There are two...

There are two...

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of...

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Seeds of faith...

Seeds of faith...

Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their...

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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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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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Derek Bok: There is far...

Derek Bok: There is far...

There is far too much law for those who can afford it and far too little for those who...

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Christopher Lasch: Nothing succeeds like...

Christopher Lasch: Nothing succeeds like...

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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bell hooks: It is poetry...

bell hooks: It is poetry...

It is poetry that changes everything.

Source: Black Is a Woman's Color, 1989.
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Elie Wiesel: Not to transmit...

Elie Wiesel: Not to transmit...

Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.

Source: In Christian Science...

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Marquis de Sade: The more defects...

Marquis de Sade: The more defects...

The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his...

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Sun Tzu [Wu]: Supreme excellence consists...

Sun Tzu [Wu]: Supreme excellence consists...

Supreme excellence consists in breaking an enemy's resistance without fighting.

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Charles Simmons: He who wants...

Charles Simmons: He who wants...

He who wants to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything. Life is made up of little things. True...

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John Oliver Killens: What a tiresome...

John Oliver Killens: What a tiresome...

What a tiresome place America would be if freedom meant we all had to think alike or be the same color or wear that...

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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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Homer: Many shining actions...

Homer: Many shining actions...

Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman receive the...

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P D James: What the detective...

P D James: What the detective...

What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.

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Elie Wiesel: Once you bring...

Elie Wiesel: Once you bring...

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: Undeserved praise causes...

Friedrich Nietzsche: Undeserved praise causes...

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that...

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Jean Jacques Rousseau: The greatest braggarts...

Jean Jacques Rousseau: The greatest braggarts...

The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: If we have...

Friedrich Nietzsche: If we have...

If we have our own why of life, we can bear almost any how.

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