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Ian Fleming: My mental hands...

Ian Fleming: My mental hands...

My mental hands were empty, and I felt I must do something as a counterirritant or antibody to my hysterical alarm at...

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An aphorism never...

An aphorism never...

An aphorism never coincides with the truth: it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half...

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Mary Quant: Fashion is not...

Mary Quant: Fashion is not...

Fashion is not frivolous. It is a part of being alive today.

Source: In The...

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Tom Stoppard: The truth is...

Tom Stoppard: The truth is...

The truth is always a compound of two half-truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to...

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Antonin Artaud: Tragedy on the...

Antonin Artaud: Tragedy on the...

Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.

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Susan RoAne: The rewards go...

Susan RoAne: The rewards go...

The rewards go to the risk-takers, those who are willing to put their egos on the line and reach out to other people...

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Ogden Nash: I think that...

Ogden Nash: I think that...

I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Perhaps unless the billboards fall,
I'll never...

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John Keats: Praise or blame...

John Keats: Praise or blame...

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic...

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Louis Nizer: A man who...

Louis Nizer: A man who...

A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man...

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Jean Paul: The child is...

Jean Paul: The child is...

The child is not to be educated for the present, but for the remote future, and often is opposition to the immediate...

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The lowest form...

The lowest form...

The lowest form of popular culture -- lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the...

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The hallmark of...

The hallmark of...

The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.

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Education should prepare...

Education should prepare...

Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the...

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No degree of...

No degree of...

No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly...

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Ogden Nash: God in His...

Ogden Nash: God in His...

God in His wisdom made the fly
And then forgot to tell us why.


Source: In...

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A 'new thinker',...

A 'new thinker',...

A 'new thinker', when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have...

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When some fellers...

When some fellers...

When some fellers decide to retire nobody knows the difference.

Source: In

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The world always...

The world always...

The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth--that the...

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Democracy may not...

Democracy may not...

Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace:...

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Grandma Moses: What a strange...

Grandma Moses: What a strange...

What a strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, the other forward; one is of today, the other of...

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