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Alfred Whitney Griswold: Books won't stay...

Alfred Whitney Griswold: Books won't stay...

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail.

Source: Essays on...

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Annie Elizabeth Delany: Once in a...

Annie Elizabeth Delany: Once in a...

Once in a while, God sends a good white person my way, even to this day. I think it's God's way of keeping me from...

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Lillian Carter: If I had...

Lillian Carter: If I had...

If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as...

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Hippocrates: Life is short,...

Hippocrates: Life is short,...

Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult.

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William Osler: The young physician...

William Osler: The young physician...

The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20...

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Benjamin Rush: Dreams are nothing...

Benjamin Rush: Dreams are nothing...

Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.

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Austin O'Malley: An Englishman thinks,...

Austin O'Malley: An Englishman thinks,...

An Englishman thinks, seated; a Frenchman, standing; an American, pacing; An Irishman,...

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Austin O'Malley: A book reviewer...

Austin O'Malley: A book reviewer...

A book reviewer is usually a barker before the door of a publisher's circus.

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Thomas Browne: There is music...

Thomas Browne: There is music...

There is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion.

Source: In Shorter...

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Ivan Pavlov: While you are...

Ivan Pavlov: While you are...

While you are experimenting, do not remain content with the surface of things. Don't become a mere recorder of facts,...

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Karl A Menninger: To know thyself...

Karl A Menninger: To know thyself...

To know thyself must mean to know the malignancy of one's own instincts and to know, as well, one's power to deflect...

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Alfred Adler: It is the...

Alfred Adler: It is the...

It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.

Source: In The...

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Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand: I am more...

Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand: I am more...

I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a...

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Anais Nin: We don't see...

Anais Nin: We don't see...

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Mickey Spillane: I'm a commercial...

Mickey Spillane: I'm a commercial...

I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one...

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Eudora Welty: It had been...

Eudora Welty: It had been...

It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were...

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Francois Rabelais: When I drink,...

Francois Rabelais: When I drink,...

When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Francois Rabelais: Give the enemy...

Francois Rabelais: Give the enemy...

Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.

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Anatole France: Never lend books,...

Anatole France: Never lend books,...

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them. The only books I have in my library are those that other folks have...

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Anatole France: I prefer the...

Anatole France: I prefer the...

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

Source: In My...

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