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Rufus Choate: Neither irony or...

Rufus Choate: Neither irony or...

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Daniel Webster: Failure is more...

Daniel Webster: Failure is more...

Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.

Source: In The...

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Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev: One sits the...

Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev: One sits the...

One sits the whole day at the desk and appetite is standing next to me. Away with you, I say. But Comrade Appetite...

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Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev: Whatever else may...

Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev: Whatever else may...

Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it...

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Pierre Elliott Trudeau: Living next to...

Pierre Elliott Trudeau: Living next to...

Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the...

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Adam Clayton Powell: Freedom is an...

Adam Clayton Powell: Freedom is an...

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Source: In...

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Margaret Chase Smith: One of the...

Margaret Chase Smith: One of the...

One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little. They...

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Chester A Arthur: Since I came...

Chester A Arthur: Since I came...

Since I came here I have learned that Chester A. Arthur is one man and the President of the United States is...

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Chester A Arthur: Well, there doesn't...

Chester A Arthur: Well, there doesn't...

Well, there doesn't seem anything else for an ex-President to do but to go into the country and raise big...

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James Madison: If men were...

James Madison: If men were...

If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal...

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Herman Melville: Give me a...

Herman Melville: Give me a...

Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius's crater for an ink stand. . . . To produce a mighty book you must choose a...

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Jack London: You can't wait...

Jack London: You can't wait...

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

Source: In The...

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Arnold Bennett: It is easier...

Arnold Bennett: It is easier...

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.

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Stendhal: Only great minds...

Stendhal: Only great minds...

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

Source: Fragments, 28.
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Henry Fielding: There is perhaps...

Henry Fielding: There is perhaps...

There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we...

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Edna Ferber: Life can't ever...

Edna Ferber: Life can't ever...

Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death --...

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Nadine Gordimer: The creative act...

Nadine Gordimer: The creative act...

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read...

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Tillie Olsen: I could not...

Tillie Olsen: I could not...

I could not live by literature if only to begin with, because of the slow maturing of my work and its special...

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Dorothy Gilman: She felt again...

Dorothy Gilman: She felt again...

She felt again that small shiver that occurred to her when events hinted at a destiny being played out, of unseen...

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William Faulkner: A writer needs...

William Faulkner: A writer needs...

A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which,...

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