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Live as long...

Live as long...

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

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Sugar Ray Leonard: A fighter never...

Sugar Ray Leonard: A fighter never...

A fighter never knows when it's the last bell. He doesn't want to face that.

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Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus: When a man...

Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus: When a man...

When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he...

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Napoleon Bonaparte: Ability is nothing...

Napoleon Bonaparte: Ability is nothing...

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

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

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Hannah Arendt: Ideas, as distinguished...

Hannah Arendt: Ideas, as distinguished...

Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented.

Source: In The...

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Aesop: It is not...

Aesop: It is not...

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

Source: Fables, 'The Jay and the...

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Maria Edgeworth: How success changes...

Maria Edgeworth: How success changes...

How success changes the opinion of men!

Source: The Will, 1800.
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Lois McMaster Bujold: All virtues come...

Lois McMaster Bujold: All virtues come...

All virtues come down to courage, at the sharp end of the sword. But courage must be tempered by prudence. Courage...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: Men are even...

Friedrich Nietzsche: Men are even...

Men are even lazier than they are timorous, and what they fear most is the troubles with which any unconditional...

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Elie Wiesel: The books I...

Elie Wiesel: The books I...

The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples....

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Doroth?e DeLuzy: Perseverance and audacity...

Doroth?e DeLuzy: Perseverance and audacity...

Perseverance and audacity generally win.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Max Eastman: The defining function...

Max Eastman: The defining function...

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.

Source: In Correct...

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Ellen Glasgow: No matter how...

Ellen Glasgow: No matter how...

No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless...

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Joseph Brodsky: The poetic notion...

Joseph Brodsky: The poetic notion...

The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed.

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George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon: Genius is only...

George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon: Genius is only...

Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.

Source: In Oxford Dictionary of...

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Freeman Dyson: There is a...

Freeman Dyson: There is a...

There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.

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J Robert Oppenheimer: A man whose...

J Robert Oppenheimer: A man whose...

A man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

Source: Of Albert...

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Marcel Proust: A powerful idea...

Marcel Proust: A powerful idea...

A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

Source:...

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Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus: Medicine is not...

Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus: Medicine is not...

Medicine is not merely a science but an art. The character of the physician may act more powerfully upon the patient...

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Claude Bernard: Science does not...

Claude Bernard: Science does not...

Science does not permit exceptions.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference...

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