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Night is the...

Night is the...

Night is the mother of thoughts.

Source: First Frutes.
-- John Florio, ( ...

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When you tell...

When you tell...

When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his...

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A good part...

A good part...

A good part -- and definitely the most fun part -- of being a feminist is about frightening...

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Simplicity is an...

Simplicity is an...

Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.

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A hypocrite despises...

A hypocrite despises...

A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if...

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So have I...

So have I...

So have I loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on...

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You canÆt change...

You canÆt change...

You canÆt change people but you can effect a change in them by your behaviour.

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Excuse my dust....

Excuse my dust....

Excuse my dust.

Source: Alternative epitaph; in While Rome Burns, Our Mrs. Parker...

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I'd like to...

I'd like to...

I'd like to have money. And I'd like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if...

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And there was...

And there was...

And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right...

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CYNIC, n. A...

CYNIC, n. A...

CYNIC, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. Hence the custom among...

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Bobby Seale: You can jail...

Bobby Seale: You can jail...

You can jail a revolutionary, but you cannot jail the revolution.

Source: In The...

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Ethel Percy Andrus: What I spent,...

Ethel Percy Andrus: What I spent,...

What I spent, is gone; what I kept, I lost;
but what I gave away will be mine forever.


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Saint Ambrose: No duty is...

Saint Ambrose: No duty is...

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Ralph W Sockman: The hope of...

Ralph W Sockman: The hope of...

The hope of free man in a frightened world is the values which man puts ahead of inventions when his back is to the...

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Ralph W Sockman: The test of...

Ralph W Sockman: The test of...

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the...

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Peace Pilgrim: I don't eat...

Peace Pilgrim: I don't eat...

I don't eat junk foods and I don't think junk thoughts.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Pope John XXIII: The true and...

Pope John XXIII: The true and...

The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust...

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Sonia Johnson: In our patriarchal...

Sonia Johnson: In our patriarchal...

In our patriarchal world, we are al1 taught -- whether we like to think we are or not -- that God, being male, values...

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Starhawk: Creations, whether they...

Starhawk: Creations, whether they...

Creations, whether they are children, poems, or organizations, take on a life of their...

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