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Edward Everett Hale: No, I look...

Edward Everett Hale: No, I look...

No, I look at the Senators and pray for the country.

Source: When asked if he...

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Manly Hall: It is only...

Manly Hall: It is only...

It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in...

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Emile M Cioran: To want fame...

Emile M Cioran: To want fame...

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Source: The New Gods, ...

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Thomas Hobbes: Such truth, as...

Thomas Hobbes: Such truth, as...

Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.

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Epictetus: Everything has two...

Epictetus: Everything has two...

Everything has two handles: one by which it may be borne, another by which it cannot.

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Wilkie Collins: The future of...

Wilkie Collins: The future of...

The future of English fiction may rest with this Unknown Public -- a reading public of three millions which lies right...

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Carl Gustav Jung: The creative mind...

Carl Gustav Jung: The creative mind...

The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Emma Hart Willard: Rocked in the...

Emma Hart Willard: Rocked in the...

Rocked in the cradle of the deep
I lay me down in peace to sleep;
Secure I rest upon the wave,
For Thou, O...

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Allan Bloom: Education in our...

Allan Bloom: Education in our...

Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to...

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Catharine Esther Beecher: To open avenues...

Catharine Esther Beecher: To open avenues...

To open avenues to political place and power for all classes of women would cause [the] humble labors of the family...

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Kingman Brewster, Jr: If I take...

Kingman Brewster, Jr: If I take...

If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious.

Source: On...

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Henry David Thoreau: Man's capacities have...

Henry David Thoreau: Man's capacities have...

Man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedent, so little has been...

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Ralph Ellison: The act of...

Ralph Ellison: The act of...

The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers...

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Anthony Trollope: A man's mind...

Anthony Trollope: A man's mind...

A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by...

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Lewis Carroll: Twinkle, twinkle, little...

Lewis Carroll: Twinkle, twinkle, little...

Twinkle, twinkle, little bat!
How I wonder what you're at!
Up above the world you fly!
Like a teatray in the...

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Lewis Carroll: What I tell...

Lewis Carroll: What I tell...

What I tell you three times is true.

Source: The Hunting of the Snark.
-- Lewis...

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Mark Twain: Nothing so needs...

Mark Twain: Nothing so needs...

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

Source:
-- Mark Twain,...

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Sylvia Plath: If neurotic is...

Sylvia Plath: If neurotic is...

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be...

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Robert Penn Warren: The poem ....

Robert Penn Warren: The poem ....

The poem . . . is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing...

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J B S Haldane: While I do...

J B S Haldane: While I do...

While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that...

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