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Shirley Chisholm: Tremendous amounts of...

Shirley Chisholm: Tremendous amounts of...

Tremendous amounts of talent are being lost to our society just because that talent wears a...

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Julius Caesar: As a rule,...

Julius Caesar: As a rule,...

As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.

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Djuna Barnes: I'm a fart...

Djuna Barnes: I'm a fart...

I'm a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet, under a cow pat.

Source: Doctor, in...

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Robert Graves: Intuition is the...

Robert Graves: Intuition is the...

Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to...

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Robert Graves: Take your delight...

Robert Graves: Take your delight...

Take your delight in momentariness,
Walk between dark and dark - a shining space
With the grave's narrowness,...

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Willa Cather: Art should simplify....

Willa Cather: Art should simplify....

Art should simplify. That is very nearly the whole of the higher artistic process; finding what conventions of form...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: Faith: not *wanting*...

Friedrich Nietzsche: Faith: not *wanting*...

Faith: not *wanting* to know what is true.

Source:
-- Friedrich Nietzsche, (Oct...

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Luc De Clapiers: The thought of...

Luc De Clapiers: The thought of...

The thought of eternity consoles for the shortness of life.

Source: In Correct...

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Thomas ? Kempis: All men commend...

Thomas ? Kempis: All men commend...

All men commend patience, although few be willing to practice it.

Source: De...

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Thomas ? Kempis: Man considers the...

Thomas ? Kempis: Man considers the...

Man considers the actions, but God weighs the intentions.

Source: De Imitatione...

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Thomas ? Kempis: An humble knowledge...

Thomas ? Kempis: An humble knowledge...

An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

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Remy de Gourmont: Two elements are...

Remy de Gourmont: Two elements are...

Two elements are needed to form a truth -- a fact and an abstraction.

Source: In...

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Mary Wortley Montagu: General notions are...

Mary Wortley Montagu: General notions are...

General notions are generally wrong.

Source: From an Internet collection of...

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G K Chesterton: An adventure is...

G K Chesterton: An adventure is...

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly...

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Sholem Asch: The lash may...

Sholem Asch: The lash may...

The lash may force men to physical labor: it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.

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Frank Norris: No art that...

Frank Norris: No art that...

No art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single...

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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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Barbara Cartland: I'll keep going...

Barbara Cartland: I'll keep going...

I'll keep going till my face falls off.

Source: The Observer, 'Sayings of the...

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J G Ballard: The marriage of...

J G Ballard: The marriage of...

The marriage of reason and nightmare which has dominated the 20th century has given birth to an ever more ambiguous...

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Jean Paul Richter: A timid person...

Jean Paul Richter: A timid person...

A timid person is frightened before danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person...

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