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Margaret Atwood: The answers you...

Margaret Atwood: The answers you...

The answers you get from literature depend upon the questions you pose.

Source: In...

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Margaret Atwood: A voice is...

Margaret Atwood: A voice is...

A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and...

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Robert Penn Warren: A young man's...

Robert Penn Warren: A young man's...

A young man's ambition [is] to get along in the world and make a place for himself half your life goes that way, till...

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John LeCarre: Having your book...

John LeCarre: Having your book...

Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.

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Anthony Powell: Growing old's like...

Anthony Powell: Growing old's like...

Growing old's like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

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James Thurber: It had only...

James Thurber: It had only...

It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.

Source: When asked his opinion of a...

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Artemus Ward: I have already...

Artemus Ward: I have already...

I have already given two cousins to the war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's...

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Anne Wilson Schaef: Trusting our intuition...

Anne Wilson Schaef: Trusting our intuition...

Trusting our intuition often saves us from disaster.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Maxwell Maltz: Begin to imagine...

Maxwell Maltz: Begin to imagine...

Begin to imagine what the desirable outcome would be like. Go over these mental pictures and delineate details and...

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Maxwell Maltz: For imagination sets...

Maxwell Maltz: For imagination sets...

For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of...

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Maxwell Maltz: You can do...

Maxwell Maltz: You can do...

You can do only one thing at a time. I simply tackle one problem and concentrate all efforts on what I am doing at the...

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Paul Tournier: The more refined...

Paul Tournier: The more refined...

The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable they are.

Source: The...

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Paul Tournier: Recounting of a...

Paul Tournier: Recounting of a...

Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud ... leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are...

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Clara Barton: . . ....

Clara Barton: . . ....

. . . the door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me.

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Lillian Carter: Jimmy says he'll...

Lillian Carter: Jimmy says he'll...

Jimmy says he'll never tell a lie. Well, I lie all the time. 1 have to -- to balance the family...

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Hippocrates: Everything in excess...

Hippocrates: Everything in excess...

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Benjamin Spock: There are only...

Benjamin Spock: There are only...

There are only two things a child will share willingly -- communicable diseases and his mother's...

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Emily Blackwell: Social intercourse --...

Emily Blackwell: Social intercourse --...

Social intercourse -- a very limited thing in a half civilized country, becomes in our centers of civilization a great...

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Emily Blackwell: . . ....

Emily Blackwell: . . ....

. . . every advance in social progress removes us more and more from the guidance of instinct, obliging us to depend...

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Edward De Bono: Many highly intelligent...

Edward De Bono: Many highly intelligent...

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power...

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