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Gustave Courbet: The beautiful is...

Gustave Courbet: The beautiful is...

The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs...

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Miles Davis: I know what...

Miles Davis: I know what...

I know what I've done for music, but don't call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.

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Peter De Vries: Every novel should...

Peter De Vries: Every novel should...

Every novel should have a beginning, a muddle, and an end.

Source: In Webster's...

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Aldous Huxley: The investigation of...

Aldous Huxley: The investigation of...

The investigation of nature is an infinite pasture-ground where all may graze, and where the more bite, the longer the...

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John Mortimer: The worst fault...

John Mortimer: The worst fault...

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life,...

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The secret of...

The secret of...

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do...

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In motivating people,...

In motivating people,...

In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example -- and...

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While the right...

While the right...

While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes that right...

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We are half...

We are half...

We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.

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It is one...

It is one...

It is one test of a fully developed writer that he reminds us of no one but himself.

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The principle of...

The principle of...

The principle of fashion is . . . the principle of the kaleidoscope. A new year can only bring us a new combination of...

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Ideas are the...

Ideas are the...

Ideas are the raw material of progress. Everything first takes shape in the form of an idea. But an idea by itself is...

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For the first...

For the first...

For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural...

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W E B Du Bois: But what of...

W E B Du Bois: But what of...

But what of black women? . . . I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up...

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Jackie Robinson: I've been riding...

Jackie Robinson: I've been riding...

I've been riding on Cloud Nine since the election, and I don't think I'll ever come down. Today, everything is...

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I was thirty-seven...

I was thirty-seven...

I was thirty-seven when I went to work writing the column. I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social...

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I worry about...

I worry about...

I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along. . . .

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Charles Lenox Remond: The time has...

Charles Lenox Remond: The time has...

The time has gone by for colored people to talk of patriotism: . . . He used to be proud that his grandfather, on his...

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Dodie Smith: Noble deeds and...

Dodie Smith: Noble deeds and...

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.

Source: I Capture the...

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Stanislaw Lec: A man who...

Stanislaw Lec: A man who...

A man who is a genius and doesn't know it probably isn't.

Source: In 20,000 Quips...

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