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Mary Ritter Beard: It is grievous...

Mary Ritter Beard: It is grievous...

It is grievous to read the papers in most respects, I agree. More and more I skim the headlines only, for one can be...

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky: The cleverest of...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky: The cleverest of...

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a...

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John Aubrey: How these curiosities...

John Aubrey: How these curiosities...

How these curiosities would be quite forgot, did not such idle fellows as I am put them...

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The great difference...

The great difference...

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on...

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Dagobert Runes: Work is man's...

Dagobert Runes: Work is man's...

Work is man's most natural form of relaxation.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Dagobert Runes: Listening to both...

Dagobert Runes: Listening to both...

Listening to both sides does not necessarily bring the correct judgment.

Source: A...

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Without an understanding...

Without an understanding...

Without an understanding of myth or religion, without an understanding of the relationship between destruction and...

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Claude Bernard: It is what...

Claude Bernard: It is what...

It is what we think we know already that prevents us from learning.

Source: In The...

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Werner Karl Heisenberg: What we observe...

Werner Karl Heisenberg: What we observe...

What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

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Isaac Asimov: There is an...

Isaac Asimov: There is an...

There is an art to science, and a science in art; the two are not enemies, but different aspects of the...

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What ever is...

What ever is...

What ever is the natural propensity of a person is hard to overcome. If a dog were made a king, he would still gnaw at...

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Napoleon Bonaparte: It is the...

Napoleon Bonaparte: It is the...

It is the cause and not merely the death that makes the martyr.

Source: In Correct...

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Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: The past which...

Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: The past which...

The past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past...

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Edward Rickenbacker: If a thing...

Edward Rickenbacker: If a thing...

If a thing is old, it is a sign that it is fit to live. The guarantee of continuity is...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: It is hard...

Friedrich Nietzsche: It is hard...

It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!

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Socrates: How many things...

Socrates: How many things...

How many things I can do without!

Source: In Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, by...

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Kevin Costner: I'm a big...

Kevin Costner: I'm a big...

I'm a big fan of dreams. Unfortunately, dreams are our first casualty in life -- people seem to give them up, quicker...

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Every clarification breeds...

Every clarification breeds...

Every clarification breeds new questions.

Source: In Quotable Business, ed. Louis...

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There was nothing...

There was nothing...

There was nothing separate about her days,
Like drops upon a window-pane, they ran
together and trickled away. ....

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Dagobert Runes: You cannot train...

Dagobert Runes: You cannot train...

You cannot train a horse with shouts and expect it to obey a whisper.

Source:...

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