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Orson Scott Card: Humanity does not...

Orson Scott Card: Humanity does not...

Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, then happiness...

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Thomas C Haliburton: Nicknames stick to...

Thomas C Haliburton: Nicknames stick to...

Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.

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Henry David Thoreau: Knowledge does not...

Henry David Thoreau: Knowledge does not...

Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

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Max Frisch: The difference between...

Max Frisch: The difference between...

The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's...

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Alexandre Dumas, p?re: How is it...

Alexandre Dumas, p?re: How is it...

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: Where does one...

Friedrich Nietzsche: Where does one...

Where does one not find that bland degeneration which beer produces in the spirit!

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Friedrich Nietzsche: When one does...

Friedrich Nietzsche: When one does...

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to...

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Mary McLeod Bethune: If our people...

Mary McLeod Bethune: If our people...

If our people are to fight their way out of bondage we must arm them with the sword and the shield and the buckler of...

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Arthur Schomburg: The earliest instruction...

Arthur Schomburg: The earliest instruction...

The earliest instruction was imparted orally, a system still extant in Africa and the Orient. lt trains the mind to...

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bell hooks: . . ....

bell hooks: . . ....

. . . no Black woman can become an intellectual without decolonizing her mind.

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Jean Paul: Humankind's chief fault...

Jean Paul: Humankind's chief fault...

Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones.

Source: In The...

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Jacques Barzun: The piano is...

Jacques Barzun: The piano is...

The piano is the social instrument par excellence. . . . drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the...

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Mark Twain: Familiarity breeds contempt....

Mark Twain: Familiarity breeds contempt....

Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so...

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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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Peter Drucker: Concentration is the...

Peter Drucker: Concentration is the...

Concentration is the key to economic results. No other principles of effectiveness is violated as constantly today as...

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Peter Drucker: Elephants have a...

Peter Drucker: Elephants have a...

Elephants have a hard time adapting. Cockroaches outlive everything.

Source: Forbes...

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Katharine Hepburn: Why slap them...

Katharine Hepburn: Why slap them...

Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a...

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Emily Dickinson: I cannot live...

Emily Dickinson: I cannot live...

I cannot live with You --
It would be Life --
And Life is over there --
Behind the...

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Stanislaw Lec: When myth meets...

Stanislaw Lec: When myth meets...

When myth meets myth, the collision is very real.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Bertolt Brecht: What happens to...

Bertolt Brecht: What happens to...

What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?

Source: Mother Courage, VI.
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