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Iris Murdoch: We live in...

Iris Murdoch: We live in...

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find...

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: If the study...

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: If the study...

If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections, and to destroy your taste for those...

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Lin Yutang: Besides the noble...

Lin Yutang: Besides the noble...

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life...

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William Hastie: Difficulty need not...

William Hastie: Difficulty need not...

Difficulty need not foreshadow despair or defeat. Rather achievement can be all the more satisfying because of...

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Benjamin L Hooks: We've come a...

Benjamin L Hooks: We've come a...

We've come a long way, but it's like nibbling at the edge of darkness.

Source: In...

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William Jennings Bryan: Do not compute...

William Jennings Bryan: Do not compute...

Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely...

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Bella Abzug: All of the...

Bella Abzug: All of the...

All of the men on my staff can type.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for...

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Etty Hillesum: One must also...

Etty Hillesum: One must also...

One must also accept that one has uncreative moments. The more honestly one can accept that, the quicker these moments...

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Bergen Evans: Wisdom is meaningless...

Bergen Evans: Wisdom is meaningless...

Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.

Source: In The...

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Northrop Frye: Between religion's this...

Northrop Frye: Between religion's this...

Between religion's this is and poetry's but suppose this is, there must always be some kind of tension, until the...

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Patricia Meyer Spacks: The vanity of...

Patricia Meyer Spacks: The vanity of...

The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior...

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Colin Powell: Avoid having your...

Colin Powell: Avoid having your...

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that, when your position fails, your ego goes with...

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Oliver Cromwell: Not only strike...

Oliver Cromwell: Not only strike...

Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.

Source: In The...

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Miyamoto Musashi: Perception is strong...

Miyamoto Musashi: Perception is strong...

Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to...

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James Truslow Adams: We cannot advance...

James Truslow Adams: We cannot advance...

We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day...

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Henry Brooks Adams: It is always...

Henry Brooks Adams: It is always...

It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.

Source: Comment on Robert...

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Nathan Huggins: . . ....

Nathan Huggins: . . ....

. . . touching at last, the one who through superhuman power and character had pulled together the people in the birth...

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Jacob Bronowski: The hand is...

Jacob Bronowski: The hand is...

The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Jacob Bronowski: Sooner or later...

Jacob Bronowski: Sooner or later...

Sooner or later every one of us breathes an atom that has been breathed before by anyone you can think of who has...

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Natalie Clifford Barney: Time engraves our...

Natalie Clifford Barney: Time engraves our...

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

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