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Vicki Baum: What I like...

Vicki Baum: What I like...

What I like about Hollywood is that one can get along by knowing two words of English -- SWELL and...

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Lois McMaster Bujold: Reputation is what...

Lois McMaster Bujold: Reputation is what...

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

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Michel Foucault: The judges of...

Michel Foucault: The judges of...

The judges of normality are present everywhere. We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the...

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Napoleon Bonaparte: It is only...

Napoleon Bonaparte: It is only...

It is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

Source: Remark to De Pradt...

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Emile Durkheim: One cannot long...

Emile Durkheim: One cannot long...

One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain...

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Maxwell Maltz: Often the difference...

Maxwell Maltz: Often the difference...

Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas but the courage...

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Flannery O'Connor: Conviction without experience...

Flannery O'Connor: Conviction without experience...

Conviction without experience makes for harshness.

Source: The Habit of Being,...

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Joseph Brodsky: The poetic notion...

Joseph Brodsky: The poetic notion...

The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed.

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Stanislaw Lec: What a pity...

Stanislaw Lec: What a pity...

What a pity the only way to heaven is in a hearse.

Source:
-- Stanislaw Lec,...

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Thomas Henry Huxley: It is not...

Thomas Henry Huxley: It is not...

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is important.

Source: In The...

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People, like sheep,...

People, like sheep,...

People, like sheep, tend to follow a leader -- occasionally in the right direction.

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The purpose of...

The purpose of...

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

Source: In 1,911 Best Things Anybody Ever...

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Not only does...

Not only does...

Not only does the world scarcely know who the Latin American man is, the world has barely...

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Myth is neither...

Myth is neither...

Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.

Source: Mythologies, ...

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I wonder if...

I wonder if...

I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of...

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There is no...

There is no...

There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, and all things in succession. That which grows slowly...

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The future is...

The future is...

The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and...

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Drawing on my...

Drawing on my...

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.

Source: Chips off the Old...

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<Anger is> the...

the...

the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind.

Source: In...

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Elections are won...

Elections are won...

Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for...

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