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Stephen Leacock: Electricity is of...

Stephen Leacock: Electricity is of...

Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more...

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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.

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Carl Sagan: The gears of...

Carl Sagan: The gears of...

The gears of poverty, ignorance, hopelessness and low self-esteem interact to create a kind of perpetual failure...

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Stephen Leacock: Personally, I would...

Stephen Leacock: Personally, I would...

Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia...

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Stephen Leacock: The classics are...

Stephen Leacock: The classics are...

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong in the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music...

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Sarah Louise Delany: Life is short,...

Sarah Louise Delany: Life is short,...

Life is short, and it's up to you to make it sweet.

Source: In Words to Make My...

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Michel de Certeau: The only freedom...

Michel de Certeau: The only freedom...

The only freedom supposed to be left to the masses is that of grazing on the ration of simulacra the system...

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Allan Bloom: The liberally educated...

Allan Bloom: The liberally educated...

The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate...

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Benjamin E Mays: . . ....

Benjamin E Mays: . . ....

. . . the circumference of life cannot be rightly drawn until the center is set.

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Kingman Brewster, Jr: We all live...

Kingman Brewster, Jr: We all live...

We all live in a televised goldfish bowl.

Source: Speech, 5 May 1978.
-- Kingman...

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Henry David Thoreau: What a man...

Henry David Thoreau: What a man...

What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines or rather indicates his fate.

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Mark Twain: In Paris they...

Mark Twain: In Paris they...

In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand...

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Lewis Carroll: Alice came to...

Lewis Carroll: Alice came to...

Alice came to a fork in the road. 'Which road do I take?' she asked. 'Where do you want to go?', responded the...

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Homer: Many shining actions...

Homer: Many shining actions...

Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman receive the...

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Joseph Heller: I don't believe...

Joseph Heller: I don't believe...

I don't believe in miracles because it's been a long time since we've had any.

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Lisa Alther: . . ....

Lisa Alther: . . ....

. . . inspiration never arrived when you were searching for it.

Source: In Words of...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: When one has...

Friedrich Nietzsche: When one has...

When one has much to put into them, a day has a hundred pockets.

Source: In The...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: Our treasure lies...

Friedrich Nietzsche: Our treasure lies...

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged...

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Naomi Weisstein: Except for their...

Naomi Weisstein: Except for their...

Except for their genitals, I don't know what immutable differences exist between men and women. [U]ntil social...

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Anthony Trollope: Three hours a...

Anthony Trollope: Three hours a...

Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.

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