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The creative individual...

The creative individual...

The creative individual is particularly gifted in seeing the gap between what is and what could be (which means, of...

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Cynicism is the...

Cynicism is the...

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.

Source: In The...

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I was taught...

I was taught...

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for...

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Men must be...

Men must be...

Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change if they are to reform or even maintain...

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Everyone realizes that...

Everyone realizes that...

Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized...

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This will never...

This will never...

This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing...

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Man forgives woman...

Man forgives woman...

Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.

Source: Naked Truth and...

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Man proposes, woman...

Man proposes, woman...

Man proposes, woman forecloses.

Source: Naked Truth and Veiled Allusions, (1901,...

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Thomas Aquinas: The test of...

Thomas Aquinas: The test of...

The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he...

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Paul Verlaine: And everything else...

Paul Verlaine: And everything else...

And everything else is just literature

Source: [Et tout le reste est litt?rature];...

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George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon: Genius is only...

George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon: Genius is only...

Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.

Source: In Oxford Dictionary of...

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Rene Descartes: It is not...

Rene Descartes: It is not...

It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.

Source: In...

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Richard Buckminster Fuller: One outstandingly important...

Richard Buckminster Fuller: One outstandingly important...

One outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with...

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Edmond Rostand: A pessimist is...

Edmond Rostand: A pessimist is...

A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Aldous Huxley: Experience is not...

Aldous Huxley: Experience is not...

Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.

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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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Marcel Proust: We do not...

Marcel Proust: We do not...

We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire...

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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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Anne Wilson Schaef: Differences challenge assumptions....

Anne Wilson Schaef: Differences challenge assumptions....

Differences challenge assumptions.

Source: Women's Reality, 1981.
-- Anne Wilson...

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Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus: Poison is in...

Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus: Poison is in...

Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a...

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