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A family's photograph...

A family's photograph...

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family -- and, often, is all that remains of...

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The invention of...

The invention of...

The invention of the teenager was a mistake. Once you identify a period of life in which people get to stay out late...

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What you have...

What you have...

What you have when everyone wears the same playclothes for all occasions, is addressed by nickname, expected to...

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Anybody who watches...

Anybody who watches...

Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.

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Wise sayings often...

Wise sayings often...

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away.

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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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Bob Gibson: I guess I...

Bob Gibson: I guess I...

I guess I was never much in awe of anybody. I think you have to have that attitude if you're going to go far in this...

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There are some...

There are some...

There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the...

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Niccolo Machiavelli: One change leaves...

Niccolo Machiavelli: One change leaves...

One change leaves the way open for the introduction of others.

Source: In The...

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G C Lichtenberg: One cannot demand...

G C Lichtenberg: One cannot demand...

One cannot demand of a scholar that he show himself a scholar everywhere in society, but the whole tenor of his...

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Percy Bysshe Shelley: Reason respects differences,...

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Reason respects differences,...

Reason respects differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.

Source: In...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The world which...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The world which...

The world which credits what is done
Is cold to all that might have been.


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A J P Taylor: He [Lord Northcliffe]...

A J P Taylor: He [Lord Northcliffe]...

He [Lord Northcliffe] aspired to power instead of influence, and as a result forfeited...

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Michel Foucault: As the archeology...

Michel Foucault: As the archeology...

As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its...

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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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Hannah Arendt: Total loyalty is...

Hannah Arendt: Total loyalty is...

Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: I conjure you,...

Friedrich Nietzsche: I conjure you,...

I conjure you, my brethren, to remain faithful to earth, and do not believe those who speak unto you of...

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Ludwig Wittgenstein: Uttering a word...

Ludwig Wittgenstein: Uttering a word...

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

Source:...

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George Eliot: Iteration, like friction,...

George Eliot: Iteration, like friction,...

Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.

Source:...

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Aldous Huxley: It is far...

Aldous Huxley: It is far...

It is far easier to write ten passable effective sonnets, good enough to take in the not too inquiring critic, than...

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