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Charles Buxton: To make pleasures...

Charles Buxton: To make pleasures...

To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them.

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Pearl Buck: You cannot make...

Pearl Buck: You cannot make...

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your...

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Pearl Buck: No one really...

Pearl Buck: No one really...

No one really understood music unless he was a scientist, her father had declared, and not just a scientist, either,...

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Lewis Carroll: If you don't...

Lewis Carroll: If you don't...

If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

Source: In...

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Ralph Ellison: It takes a...

Ralph Ellison: It takes a...

It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.

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Jacques Cousteau: If we were...

Jacques Cousteau: If we were...

If we were logical, the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have...

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Charles Simmons: Both mind and...

Charles Simmons: Both mind and...

Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of...

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Pearl Buck: Praise out of...

Pearl Buck: Praise out of...

Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.

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Konrad Lorenz: Humor and knowledge...

Konrad Lorenz: Humor and knowledge...

Humor and knowledge are the two great hopes of our culture.

Source: In Reader's...

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Konrad Lorenz: It is a...

Konrad Lorenz: It is a...

It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It...

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Marjorie Rosen: Women's films [in...

Marjorie Rosen: Women's films [in...

Women's films [in the fiftiesl became howto's on catching and keeping a man. Veneer. Appearance. Sex Appeal. Hollywood...

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A J P Taylor: Human blunders usually...

A J P Taylor: Human blunders usually...

Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.

Source: The...

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Theodore H White: A liberal is...

Theodore H White: A liberal is...

A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone who believes...

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Jacob Bronowski: Knowledge is an...

Jacob Bronowski: Knowledge is an...

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

Source: In The...

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Pliny the Elder: Nothing which we...

Pliny the Elder: Nothing which we...

Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.

Source: In Wisdom of the...

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David Hume: Where ambition can...

David Hume: Where ambition can...

Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the...

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Naomi Weisstein: It's as if...

Naomi Weisstein: It's as if...

It's as if we women are in a totally rigged race. A lot of men are driving souped-up low slung racing cars, and we're...

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Louis Brandeis: Neutrality is at...

Louis Brandeis: Neutrality is at...

Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.

Source: The Words of Justice...

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Christa McAuliffe: I touch the...

Christa McAuliffe: I touch the...

I touch the future. I teach.

Source: Speech, Aug 1985; in Time, 10 Feb 1986.
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Dale Carnegie: There are always...

Dale Carnegie: There are always...

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one...

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