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Guillaume Apollinaire: Memories are hunting...

Guillaume Apollinaire: Memories are hunting...

Memories are hunting horns whose sound dies on the wind.

Source: Cors de...

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Mary McCarthy: I am putting...

Mary McCarthy: I am putting...

I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake.

Source: On The Group,, her 1963...

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Gotthold Lessing: The most deadly...

Gotthold Lessing: The most deadly...

The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished...

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Jean Jacques Rousseau: To endure is...

Jean Jacques Rousseau: To endure is...

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to...

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Charles Peguy: Everything begins in...

Charles Peguy: Everything begins in...

Everything begins in mysticism and ends in politics.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Florence Scovel Shinn: If one is...

Florence Scovel Shinn: If one is...

If one is willing to do a thing he is afraid to do, he does not have to . . . face a situation fearlessly, and [if]...

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Ivan Turgenev: Most people can't...

Ivan Turgenev: Most people can't...

Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.

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Jiddu Krishnamurti: There is no...

Jiddu Krishnamurti: There is no...

There is no need to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The...

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Mary McLeod Bethune: The drums of...

Mary McLeod Bethune: The drums of...

The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: The future influences...

Friedrich Nietzsche: The future influences...

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

Source: In Webster's...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: The best weapon...

Friedrich Nietzsche: The best weapon...

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: The English are...

Friedrich Nietzsche: The English are...

The English are the nation of consummate cant.

Source: Twilight of the Idols, ...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: The literary woman,...

Friedrich Nietzsche: The literary woman,...

The literary woman, unsatisfied, agitated, desolate in heart and entrails, listening every minute with painful...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: All sciences are...

Friedrich Nietzsche: All sciences are...

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to...

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Maxine Hong Kingston: The difference between...

Maxine Hong Kingston: The difference between...

The difference between mad people and sane people . . . is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad...

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Jean Toomer: Talk about it...

Jean Toomer: Talk about it...

Talk about it only enough to do it. Dream about it only enough to feel it. Think about it only enough to understand...

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Robert Penn Warren: What is a...

Robert Penn Warren: What is a...

What is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding? It is the deepest part of...

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Pliny the Elder: Men are most...

Pliny the Elder: Men are most...

Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Sandra Day O'Connor: It is difficult...

Sandra Day O'Connor: It is difficult...

It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful...

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Jacques Barzun: The intellectuals' chief...

Jacques Barzun: The intellectuals' chief...

The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works.

Source: The...

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