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Richard Cecil: The history of...

Richard Cecil: The history of...

The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: Every extension of...

Friedrich Nietzsche: Every extension of...

Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious.

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Friedrich Nietzsche: Not by wrath...

Friedrich Nietzsche: Not by wrath...

Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: Let us beware...

Friedrich Nietzsche: Let us beware...

Let us beware of saying there are laws in nature. There are only necessities: there is no one to command, no one to...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: The creation of...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: The creation of...

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Epictetus: A ship should...

Epictetus: A ship should...

A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.

Source: In...

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Emily Bronte: A person who...

Emily Bronte: A person who...

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half...

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Francoise Sagan: There are moments...

Francoise Sagan: There are moments...

There are moments when you feel trapped, ill at ease. A year later the same feeling can turn out to be the theme of a...

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Francoise Sagan: To jealousy, nothing...

Francoise Sagan: To jealousy, nothing...

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

Source: La Chamade,...

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Naomi Mitchison: After you've written...

Naomi Mitchison: After you've written...

After you've written about something once, though, it's very dangerous to try and do it again. The original story was...

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Francoise Sagan: Jazz music is...

Francoise Sagan: Jazz music is...

Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.

Source: Dominique, in A...

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Maria Montessori: The observation of...

Maria Montessori: The observation of...

The observation of the way in which the children pass from the first disordered movements to those which are...

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Maria Montessori: If education is...

Maria Montessori: If education is...

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is...

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Howard Thurman: Commitment means that...

Howard Thurman: Commitment means that...

Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a...

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Kelly Miller: Exaggerated self-importance is...

Kelly Miller: Exaggerated self-importance is...

Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue.

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Sylvia Ashton-Warner: God, the illogic!...

Sylvia Ashton-Warner: God, the illogic!...

God, the illogic! The impossibility of communication in this house. The sheer operation alone of getting something...

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Thomas Carlyle: I do not...

Thomas Carlyle: I do not...

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Source: The Age...

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Thomas Carlyle: A great man...

Thomas Carlyle: A great man...

A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.

Source: In...

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Theodor Reik: Great innovators and...

Theodor Reik: Great innovators and...

Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the...

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Claude Levi-Strauss: The scientific mind...

Claude Levi-Strauss: The scientific mind...

The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.

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