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Michel Foucault: The work of...

Michel Foucault: The work of...

The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others; it is, through the analyses that he does in...

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Maxwell Maltz: Often the difference...

Maxwell Maltz: Often the difference...

Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas but the courage...

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Franz Kafka: The dream reveals...

Franz Kafka: The dream reveals...

The dream reveals the reality which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life -- the terror of...

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Guillaume Apollinaire: Come to the...

Guillaume Apollinaire: Come to the...

Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them... and they...

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Lois McMaster Bujold: Reputation is what...

Lois McMaster Bujold: Reputation is what...

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

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Carl Sagan: Philosophers and scientists...

Carl Sagan: Philosophers and scientists...

Philosophers and scientists confidently offer up traits said to be uniquely human, and the monkeys and apes casually...

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Dagobert Runes: There is no...

Dagobert Runes: There is no...

There is no better friend than a frank enemy.

Source: A Book of Contemplation
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Miles Davis: I know what...

Miles Davis: I know what...

I know what I've done for music, but don't call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.

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Carl Linnaeus: It is the...

Carl Linnaeus: It is the...

It is the genus that gives the characters, and not the characters that make the genus.

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Isaac Newton: Errors are not...

Isaac Newton: Errors are not...

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

Source: In Shorter Bartlett's...

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Meister Eckhart: What a man...

Meister Eckhart: What a man...

What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.

Source: In The...

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Flannery O'Connor: Conviction without experience...

Flannery O'Connor: Conviction without experience...

Conviction without experience makes for harshness.

Source: The Habit of Being,...

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L Ron Hubbard: The differences between...

L Ron Hubbard: The differences between...

The differences between a competent person and an incompetent person are demonstrated in his environment...

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W E B Du Bois: But what of...

W E B Du Bois: But what of...

But what of black women? . . . I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up...

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Isaac Asimov: Self-education is, I...

Isaac Asimov: Self-education is, I...

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

Source:...

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Michel Foucault: Madness is the...

Michel Foucault: Madness is the...

Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in...

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A Bartlett Giamatti: Teaching is an...

A Bartlett Giamatti: Teaching is an...

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: Many a man...

Friedrich Nietzsche: Many a man...

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good.

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John Arbuthnot: Biography is one...

John Arbuthnot: Biography is one...

Biography is one of the new terrors of death.

Source: In The Poetical Works of...

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Peter De Vries: The difficulty with...

Peter De Vries: The difficulty with...

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality and must live with a...

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