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Byron R White: When the whistle...

Byron R White: When the whistle...

When the whistle blows you have only a limited amount of time to do what you have to do. You either do it then or you...

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Rose Elizabeth Bird: It is easy...

Rose Elizabeth Bird: It is easy...

It is easy to be popular. It is not easy to be just.

Source: In Boston Globe, 25...

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Etty Hillesum: After each creative...

Etty Hillesum: After each creative...

After each creative act one has to be sustained by one's strength of character, by a moral sense, by I don't know...

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Plato: Beauty of style...

Plato: Beauty of style...

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.

Source:...

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Boris Pasternak: In every generation...

Boris Pasternak: In every generation...

In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.

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Nathaniel Hawthorne: The world owes...

Nathaniel Hawthorne: The world owes...

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient...

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Mahatma Gandhi: It is unwise...

Mahatma Gandhi: It is unwise...

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the...

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Immanuel Kant: Imagination is a...

Immanuel Kant: Imagination is a...

Imagination is a powerful agent for creating, as it were, a second nature out of the material supplied to it by actual...

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John Locke: It is one...

John Locke: It is one...

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: He that humbleth...

Friedrich Nietzsche: He that humbleth...

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: We have art...

Friedrich Nietzsche: We have art...

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: He who fights...

Friedrich Nietzsche: He who fights...

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss,...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: Necessity is not...

Friedrich Nietzsche: Necessity is not...

Necessity is not an established fact, but rather an interpretation.

Source: In The...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: Thoughts are the...

Friedrich Nietzsche: Thoughts are the...

Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these.

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Jiddu Krishnamurti: Meditation is not...

Jiddu Krishnamurti: Meditation is not...

Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end.

Source: The...

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Mahatma Gandhi: The weak can...

Mahatma Gandhi: The weak can...

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Source: In...

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Mary McLeod Bethune: If we have...

Mary McLeod Bethune: If we have...

If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we...

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Mary McLeod Bethune: Next to God...

Mary McLeod Bethune: Next to God...

Next to God we are indebted
to women, first for life itself,
and then for making it
worth...

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Nelson Algren: The hard necessity...

Nelson Algren: The hard necessity...

The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the...

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Nelson Algren: I went out...

Nelson Algren: I went out...

I went out there [Hollywood] for a thousand a week, and I worked Monday, and I got fired Wednesday. The guy that hired...

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