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Arthur Koestler: True creativity often...

Arthur Koestler: True creativity often...

True creativity often starts where language ends.

Source: The act of Creation, bk....

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James Agee: Understanding, and action...

James Agee: Understanding, and action...

Understanding, and action proceeding from understanding and guided by it, is one weapon against the world's...

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Joseph Marie De Maistre: To know how...

Joseph Marie De Maistre: To know how...

To know how to wait is the great secret of success.

Source: In Wisdom of the Ages...

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Richard Bach: Do you know...

Richard Bach: Do you know...

Do you know what I learned from you? I learned what is possible, and now I must hold out for what I thought we...

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Margaret Drabble: The middle years,...

Margaret Drabble: The middle years,...

The middle years, caught between children and parents, free of neither: the past stretches back too densely, it is too...

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V S Naipaul: Ignorant people in...

V S Naipaul: Ignorant people in...

Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.

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V S Naipaul: An autobiography can...

V S Naipaul: An autobiography can...

An autobiography can distort, facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies. It reveals the writer...

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Philip Guedalla: History repeats itself....

Philip Guedalla: History repeats itself....

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.

Source: Supers and Supermen,}...

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Mary Ritter Beard: [T]hose who sit...

Mary Ritter Beard: [T]hose who sit...

[T]hose who sit at the feast will continue to enjoy themselves even though the veil that separates them from the world...

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Learned Hand: There is no...

Learned Hand: There is no...

There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally.

Source:...

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Orison Swett Marden: A good system...

Orison Swett Marden: A good system...

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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William Jennings Bryan: If we have...

William Jennings Bryan: If we have...

If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.

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Margot Asquith: No one ever...

Margot Asquith: No one ever...

No one ever pruned me. If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days,...

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Daniel Defoe: Middle age is...

Daniel Defoe: Middle age is...

Middle age is youth without its levity,
And age without decay.


Source: In...

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Daniel Defoe: The best of...

Daniel Defoe: The best of...

The best of men cannot suspend their fate:
The good die early, and the bad die late.


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Lewis Carroll: That's the reason...

Lewis Carroll: That's the reason...

That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.

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Henry Brooks Adams: Nothing in education...

Henry Brooks Adams: Nothing in education...

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert...

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George Bancroft: By common consent...

George Bancroft: By common consent...

By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite...

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Pliny the Elder: Prosperity tries the...

Pliny the Elder: Prosperity tries the...

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Alexis de Tocqueville: The greatness of...

Alexis de Tocqueville: The greatness of...

The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair...

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