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Dick Gregory: [A politician is]...

Dick Gregory: [A politician is]...

[A politician is] a person skilled in the art of compromise. Usually an elected official who has compromised to get...

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I walked beside...

I walked beside...

I walked beside the evening sea
And dreamed a dream that could not be;
The waves that plunged along the...

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Gradually I came...

Gradually I came...

Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey,...

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Idle people are...

Idle people are...

Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and...

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Almost always tradition...

Almost always tradition...

Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created....

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The wise man...

The wise man...

The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is...

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Benjamin Franklin: I am about...

Benjamin Franklin: I am about...

I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her faults, and...

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Gustave Courbet: Painting is the...

Gustave Courbet: Painting is the...

Painting is the representation of visible forms. . . The essence of realism is its negation of the...

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When my enemies...

When my enemies...

When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping.

Source: In Maria Callas,...

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John Ciardi: It is easy...

John Ciardi: It is easy...

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy...

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Diana Ross: Instead of looking...

Diana Ross: Instead of looking...

Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to...

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Ramsey Clark: The measure of...

Ramsey Clark: The measure of...

The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you...

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Kelly Miller: Exaggerated self-importance is...

Kelly Miller: Exaggerated self-importance is...

Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue.

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Wilhelm von Humboldt: True enjoyment comes...

Wilhelm von Humboldt: True enjoyment comes...

True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever...

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George Steiner: The ordinary man...

George Steiner: The ordinary man...

The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts...

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No one ever...

No one ever...

No one ever confides a secret to one person only. No one destroys all copies of a...

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There's a great...

There's a great...

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.

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The Journal is...

The Journal is...

The Journal is not essentially a confession, a story about oneself. It is a Memorial. What does the writer have to...

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A cynic might...

A cynic might...

A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend -- 'Just as good as the...

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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek: [W]henever I found...

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek: [W]henever I found...

[W]henever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all...

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