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Friedrich Nietzsche: The desire to...

Friedrich Nietzsche: The desire to...

The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does...

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John Locke: Reading furnishes the...

John Locke: Reading furnishes the...

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read...

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Martha Carey Thomas: My one aim...

Martha Carey Thomas: My one aim...

My one aim and concentrated purpose shall be and is to show that women can learn, can reason, can compete with men in...

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Mary Catherine Bateson: Human beings do...

Mary Catherine Bateson: Human beings do...

Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.

Source: With a Daughter's Eye,...

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Stephen Leacock: If every day...

Stephen Leacock: If every day...

If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little fault to find with...

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Sun Tzu [Wu]: There is no...

Sun Tzu [Wu]: There is no...

There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare.

Source:...

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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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Hannah Arendt: Storytelling reveals meaning...

Hannah Arendt: Storytelling reveals meaning...

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

Source:...

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Bliss Carman: What are facts...

Bliss Carman: What are facts...

What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation...

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Bertolt Brecht: It isn't important...

Bertolt Brecht: It isn't important...

It isn't important to come out on top. What matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

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Stanislaw Lec: Do not turn...

Stanislaw Lec: Do not turn...

Do not turn your back on anyone. You may be painted on one side only.

Source: In...

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George Chapman: We inherit nothing...

George Chapman: We inherit nothing...

We inherit nothing truly, but what our actions make us worthy of.

Source: In...

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Richard Buckminster Fuller: You have to...

Richard Buckminster Fuller: You have to...

You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually...

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Fred Hoyle: Space isn't remote...

Fred Hoyle: Space isn't remote...

Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight...

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G C Lichtenberg: Actual aristocracy cannot...

G C Lichtenberg: Actual aristocracy cannot...

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to...

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Stanley Kubrick: The theme, what's...

Stanley Kubrick: The theme, what's...

The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.

Source:...

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David Cronenberg: Censors tend to...

David Cronenberg: Censors tend to...

Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.

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Steven Wright: What's another word...

Steven Wright: What's another word...

What's another word for Thesaurus?

Source: commedian
-- Steven Wright, (Dec 6...

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Wendy Wasserstein: The real reason...

Wendy Wasserstein: The real reason...

The real reason for comedy is to hide the pain.

Source: Interviews with...

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I don't necessarily...

I don't necessarily...

I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.

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-- Marshall McLuhan,...

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