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Friedrich Nietzsche: The press, the...

Friedrich Nietzsche: The press, the...

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to...

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Elie Wiesel: Writing is not...

Elie Wiesel: Writing is not...

Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more...

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James Thurber: You can fool...

James Thurber: You can fool...

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

Source: Fables for Our...

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Richard Bach: . . ....

Richard Bach: . . ....

. . . there is such a thing as perfection . . . and our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it...

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Peter Abrahams: To get where...

Peter Abrahams: To get where...

To get where you want to go you can't only do what you like.

Source: Tell Freedom,...

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Wilkie Collins: I am not...

Wilkie Collins: I am not...

I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.

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Louis Auchincloss: Perfection irritates as...

Louis Auchincloss: Perfection irritates as...

Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.

Source:...

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Jane Austen: One does not...

Jane Austen: One does not...

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless it has all been suffering, nothing but...

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Henry David Thoreau: How can they...

Henry David Thoreau: How can they...

How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.

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Arnold (Joseph) Toynbee: The right moment...

Arnold (Joseph) Toynbee: The right moment...

The right moment for starting on your next job is not tomorrow or next week; it is instanter, or in the American...

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Jacob Bronowski: The world is...

Jacob Bronowski: The world is...

The world is made of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower...

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Pearl Buck: In this unbelievable...

Pearl Buck: In this unbelievable...

In this unbelievable universe in which we live, there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines, reaching into infinity,...

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Ralph Ellison: The understanding of...

Ralph Ellison: The understanding of...

The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human...

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Margot Asquith: The ingrained idea...

Margot Asquith: The ingrained idea...

The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is...

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Margot Asquith: Lord Birkenhead is...

Margot Asquith: Lord Birkenhead is...

Lord Birkenhead is very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head.

Source:...

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Sun Tzu [Wu]: All men can...

Sun Tzu [Wu]: All men can...

All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is...

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A E Housman: When I was...

A E Housman: When I was...

When I was one-and-twenty
I heard a wise man say,
`Give crowns and pounds and guineas
But not your heart...

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Alexis de Tocqueville: In a revolution,...

Alexis de Tocqueville: In a revolution,...

In a revolution, as in a novel. the most difficult part to invent is the end.

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Thurgood Marshall: A child born...

Thurgood Marshall: A child born...

A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi . . . has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to...

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Barbara De Angelis: We need to...

Barbara De Angelis: We need to...

We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover...

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