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Lewis Carroll: Now here, you...

Lewis Carroll: Now here, you...

Now here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else,...

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Sarah Orne Jewett: The thing that...

Sarah Orne Jewett: The thing that...

The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper -- whether...

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Ralph Ellison: The antidote to...

Ralph Ellison: The antidote to...

The antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony, that capacity to discover and systematize ideas. Or, as...

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William Hastie: History informs us...

William Hastie: History informs us...

History informs us of past mistakes from which we can learn without repeating them. It also inspires us and gives...

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William Hastie: Strategic planning for...

William Hastie: Strategic planning for...

Strategic planning for the future is the most hopeful indication of our increasing social...

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Learned Hand: It is enough...

Learned Hand: It is enough...

It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own choosing; when we do, the...

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Alexander Cockburn: Be careful about...

Alexander Cockburn: Be careful about...

Be careful about Burma. Most people cannot remember whether it was Siam and has become Thailand, or whether it is now...

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Orison Swett Marden: There is no...

Orison Swett Marden: There is no...

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something...

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Clarence Darrow: The trouble with...

Clarence Darrow: The trouble with...

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Walter Benjamin: Every passion borders...

Walter Benjamin: Every passion borders...

Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of...

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Harvey Cushing: I would like...

Harvey Cushing: I would like...

I would like to see the day when somebody would be appointed surgeon somewhere who had no hands, for the operative...

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Jane Harrison: To be meek,...

Jane Harrison: To be meek,...

To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be...

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William A Ward: Opportunity is often...

William A Ward: Opportunity is often...

Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and...

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Diane Ravitch: When you succeed...

Diane Ravitch: When you succeed...

When you succeed at keeping almost everyone in school, you must figure out ways to educate everyone you keep in...

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Molefi Kete Asante: The person who...

Molefi Kete Asante: The person who...

The person who strays away from the source is unroofed and is like dust blown about by the...

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Laurence J Peter: If at first...

Laurence J Peter: If at first...

If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Source: In Friendly Advice, ed. Jon...

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Henry Louis Gates, Jr: We must begin...

Henry Louis Gates, Jr: We must begin...

We must begin to understand the nature of intertextuality . . . the manner by which texts poems and novels respond...

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Anna Julia Cooper: Teach [our girls]...

Anna Julia Cooper: Teach [our girls]...

Teach [our girls] that there is a race with special needs which they and only they can help; that the world needs and...

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Frances Perkins: The quality of...

Frances Perkins: The quality of...

The quality of his being one with the people, of having no artificial or natural barriers between him and them, made...

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Thomas Carlyle: A crowd has...

Thomas Carlyle: A crowd has...

A crowd has the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Source: In Webster's...

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