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Benjamin Jowett: My dear child,...

Benjamin Jowett: My dear child,...

My dear child, you must believe in God despite what the clergy tell you.

Source: In...

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Jane Harrison: A young and...

Jane Harrison: A young and...

A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will . . . . It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other...

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Michel de Certeau: The media transforms...

Michel de Certeau: The media transforms...

The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks...

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Warren Bennis: Managers are people...

Warren Bennis: Managers are people...

Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who do the right thing.

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Kenneth MacKenzie Clark: Of all these...

Kenneth MacKenzie Clark: Of all these...

Of all these questions the one he asks most insistently is about man. How does he walk? How does the heart pump blood?...

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Carl Sagan: Books tap the...

Carl Sagan: Books tap the...

Books tap the wisdom of our species -- the greatest minds, the best teachers -- from all over the world and from all...

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Mary Catherine Bateson: The capacity to...

Mary Catherine Bateson: The capacity to...

The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.

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Mary Catherine Bateson: The Christian tradition...

Mary Catherine Bateson: The Christian tradition...

The Christian tradition was passed on to me as a great rich mixture, a bouillabaisse of human imagination and wonder...

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Kenneth MacKenzie Clark: A visual experience...

Kenneth MacKenzie Clark: A visual experience...

A visual experience is vitalizing. Whereas to write great poetry, to draw continuously on one's inner life, is not...

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Stephen Leacock: Humor may be...

Stephen Leacock: Humor may be...

Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression...

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Mark Hopkins: Language is the...

Mark Hopkins: Language is the...

Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.

Source: In The New Webster's...

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Emily James Putnam: In contemporary society...

Emily James Putnam: In contemporary society...

In contemporary society [the typical lady] is an archaism, and can't hardly understand herself unless she knows her...

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Sarah Louise Delany: Oh, Mama was...

Sarah Louise Delany: Oh, Mama was...

Oh, Mama was a smart woman. It takes a smart woman to fall in love with a good man.

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Allan Bloom: We are like...

Allan Bloom: We are like...

We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with...

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Freda Adler: It is not...

Freda Adler: It is not...

It is not only by the questions we have answered that progress may be measured, but also by those we are still...

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Freda Adler: Major social movements....

Freda Adler: Major social movements....

Major social movements. . . eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have...

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Freda Adler: The Rubicons which...

Freda Adler: The Rubicons which...

The Rubicons which women must cross, the sex barriers which they must breach, are ultimately those that exist in the...

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Freda Adler: The type of...

Freda Adler: The type of...

The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its...

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Kelly Miller: All great people...

Kelly Miller: All great people...

All great people glorify their history and look back upon their early attainments with a spiritualized...

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George Borrow: Youth will be...

George Borrow: Youth will be...

Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one.

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