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Andre Malraux: Be careful, --...

Andre Malraux: Be careful, --...

Be careful, -- with quotations you can damn anything.

Source: Anti-censorship...

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Stephen Leacock: Writing is no...

Stephen Leacock: Writing is no...

Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself -- it is the...

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Benjamin Jowett: The way to...

Benjamin Jowett: The way to...

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit of doing them.

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Derek Bok: The oldest of...

Derek Bok: The oldest of...

The oldest of the arts and the youngest of the professions.

Source: Conferring the...

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Sarah Louise Delany: In our dreams,...

Sarah Louise Delany: In our dreams,...

In our dreams, we are always young.

Source: In Words to Make My Dream Children...

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Allan Bloom: Education in our...

Allan Bloom: Education in our...

Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to...

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Kingman Brewster, Jr: The function of...

Kingman Brewster, Jr: The function of...

The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes...

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bell hooks: Usually, when people...

bell hooks: Usually, when people...

Usually, when people talk about the strength of black women . . . . they ignore the reality that to be strong in the...

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John Aubrey: When he killed...

John Aubrey: When he killed...

When he killed a calf he would do it in a high style, and make a speech.

Source:...

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John Aubrey: The parliament intended...

John Aubrey: The parliament intended...

The parliament intended to have hanged him; and he expected no less, but resolved to be hanged with the Bible under...

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Carl Sagan: One of the...

Carl Sagan: One of the...

One of the greatest gifts adults can give -- to their offspring and to their society -- is to read to...

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Rose Elizabeth Bird: The judiciary must...

Rose Elizabeth Bird: The judiciary must...

The judiciary must not take on the coloration of whatever may be popular at the moment. [W]e are guardian of rights,...

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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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Ralph Ellison: I'm not a...

Ralph Ellison: I'm not a...

I'm not a separatist. The imagination is integrative. That's how you make the new -- by putting something else with...

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Honore de Balzac: Power is not...

Honore de Balzac: Power is not...

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

Source: In...

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Pearl Buck: Ah well, perhaps...

Pearl Buck: Ah well, perhaps...

Ah well, perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than...

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Agatha Christie: The popular idea...

Agatha Christie: The popular idea...

The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of...

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Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: A religious life...

Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: A religious life...

A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Omar Bradley: Never use intuition....

Omar Bradley: Never use intuition....

Never use intuition.

Source:
-- Omar Bradley, (Feb 12 1893-1981), US army...

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Douglas MacArthur: Life is a...

Douglas MacArthur: Life is a...

Life is a lively process of becoming.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference...

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