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Niels Bohr: A physicist is...

Niels Bohr: A physicist is...

A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.

Source: From Charades, an...

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Auguste Renoir: The work of...

Auguste Renoir: The work of...

The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself and carry you away. It is the means by which the artist...

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Robert Louis Stevenson: When a torrent...

Robert Louis Stevenson: When a torrent...

When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the...

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Van Wyck Brooks: No one is...

Van Wyck Brooks: No one is...

No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or...

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J B S Haldane: A fairly bright...

J B S Haldane: A fairly bright...

A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.

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Cleveland Amory: The New England...

Cleveland Amory: The New England...

The New England conscience. . . doesn't stop you from doing what you shouldn't -- it just stops you from enjoying...

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Ralph Ellison: Eclecticism is the...

Ralph Ellison: Eclecticism is the...

Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by...

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Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: The more we...

Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: The more we...

The more we know, the better we forgive. Whoe'er feels deeply, feels for all that live.

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Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: The success of...

Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: The success of...

The success of any man with any woman is apt to displease even his best friends.

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Edith Hamilton: Theories that go...

Edith Hamilton: Theories that go...

Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.

Source: The...

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Siegfried Sassoon: His most rational...

Siegfried Sassoon: His most rational...

His most rational response to my attempts at drawing him out about literature and art was 'I adore italics, don't...

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Lewis Carroll: One can't believe...

Lewis Carroll: One can't believe...

One can't believe impossible things.
I daresay you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age,...

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Anthony Trollope: Life is so...

Anthony Trollope: Life is so...

Life is so unlike theory.

Source: Phineas Finn.
-- Anthony Trollope, (Apr 24...

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Ariel Durant: Only a fool...

Ariel Durant: Only a fool...

Only a fool would try to compress a hundred centuries into a hundred pages of hazardous conclusions. We...

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Sholom Aleichem: Gossip is nature's...

Sholom Aleichem: Gossip is nature's...

Gossip is nature's telephone.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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John Dewey: The end justifies...

John Dewey: The end justifies...

The end justifies the means only when the means used are such as actually bring about the desired and desirable...

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Barbara De Angelis: The greatest gift...

Barbara De Angelis: The greatest gift...

The greatest gift you and your partner can give your children is the example of an intimate, healthy, and loving...

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Jacques Barzun: Art distills sensation...

Jacques Barzun: Art distills sensation...

Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form -- or else it is not...

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Jacques Barzun: Music is intended...

Jacques Barzun: Music is intended...

Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and...

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Johanna Spyri: Anger has overpowered...

Johanna Spyri: Anger has overpowered...

Anger has overpowered him, and driven him to a revenge which was rather a stupid one, I must acknowledge, but anger...

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