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John Dalberg Acton: Be not content...

John Dalberg Acton: Be not content...

Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.

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Destiny has two...

Destiny has two...

Destiny has two ways of crushing us -- by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

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Civilization is merely...

Civilization is merely...

Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty...

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Francis Beaumont: Faith without works...

Francis Beaumont: Faith without works...

Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never...

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Robert Bolt: The nobility of...

Robert Bolt: The nobility of...

The nobility of England, my lord, would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount.

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Agnes George DeMille: The practice mirror...

Agnes George DeMille: The practice mirror...

The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should...

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Betty Ford: It's always been...

Betty Ford: It's always been...

It's always been my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you haven't...

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Daniel Moynihan: The single most...

Daniel Moynihan: The single most...

The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so...

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Benjamin Disraeli: All is mystery;...

Benjamin Disraeli: All is mystery;...

All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.

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Paul Tournier: I have no...

Paul Tournier: I have no...

I have no methods; all I do is accept people as they are.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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John Dalberg Acton: Guard against the...

John Dalberg Acton: Guard against the...

Guard against the prestige of great names; see that your judgments are your own; and do not shrink from disagreement;...

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Martin Buber: I do, indeed,...

Martin Buber: I do, indeed,...

I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and...

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Funny how people...

Funny how people...

Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true...

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No theater could...

No theater could...

No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and...

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Michelangelo: What spirit is...

Michelangelo: What spirit is...

What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and...

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Edmond Rostand: I recoil, overcome...

Edmond Rostand: I recoil, overcome...

I recoil, overcome with the glory of my rosy hue and the knowledge that I, a mere cock, have made the sun...

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Daniel Moynihan: Citizen participation [is]...

Daniel Moynihan: Citizen participation [is]...

Citizen participation [is] a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the...

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Gertrude Stein: If you are...

Gertrude Stein: If you are...

If you are too careful, you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over...

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There are many...

There are many...

There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of...

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I have drunk...

I have drunk...

I have drunk deep of the waters of my ancestors.

Source: Malcolm X -- An...

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