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Friedrich Nietzsche: Mathematics. . ....

Friedrich Nietzsche: Mathematics. . ....

Mathematics. . . would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in...

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Alain Locke: The younger generation...

Alain Locke: The younger generation...

The younger generation is vibrant with a new psychology; the new spirit is awake in the masses . . . Each generation ....

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Friedrich Nietzsche: We do not...

Friedrich Nietzsche: We do not...

We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: The abdomen is...

Friedrich Nietzsche: The abdomen is...

The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.

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Thomas Hobbes: Such is the...

Thomas Hobbes: Such is the...

Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more...

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Mahatma Gandhi: It is better...

Mahatma Gandhi: It is better...

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover...

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Mary McLeod Bethune: When they...

Mary McLeod Bethune: When they...

When they learn of Shakespeare and Goethe, we must teach them of Pushkin and Dumas . . . Whatever the white man has...

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William Temple: The most influential...

William Temple: The most influential...

The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.

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Aldous Huxley: Experience is not...

Aldous Huxley: Experience is not...

Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.

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Peter De Vries: Words fashioned with...

Peter De Vries: Words fashioned with...

Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie...

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Margaret Drabble: Why can't people...

Margaret Drabble: Why can't people...

Why can't people be both flexible and efficient?

Source: The Middle Ground,...

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George Eliot: The egoism which...

George Eliot: The egoism which...

The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied,...

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Charles Dickens: We cannot have...

Charles Dickens: We cannot have...

We cannot have single gentlemen to come into this establishment and sleep like double gentlemen without paying extra...

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Frederick Douglass: A man's character...

Frederick Douglass: A man's character...

A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about...

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Rose Elizabeth Bird: The judiciary must...

Rose Elizabeth Bird: The judiciary must...

The judiciary must not take on the coloration of whatever may be popular at the moment. [W]e are guardian of rights,...

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Van Wyck Brooks: If men were...

Van Wyck Brooks: If men were...

If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the...

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Patricia Meyer Spacks: Poring over fragments...

Patricia Meyer Spacks: Poring over fragments...

Poring over fragments of other people's lives, peering into their bedrooms when they don't know we're there, we thrill...

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Agatha Christie: I didn't want...

Agatha Christie: I didn't want...

I didn't want to work. It was as simple as that. I distrusted work, disliked it. I thought it was a very bad thing...

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E L Doctorow: Writing is like...

E L Doctorow: Writing is like...

Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole...

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George Steiner: Chess may be...

George Steiner: Chess may be...

Chess may be the deepest, least exhaustible of pastimes, but it is nothing more. As for a chess genius, he is a human...

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