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Walter F Mondale: If you are...

Walter F Mondale: If you are...

If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.

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Walter Benjamin: Work on good...

Walter Benjamin: Work on good...

Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a...

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Walter Benjamin: Nothing is poorer...

Walter Benjamin: Nothing is poorer...

Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad...

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Franz Kafka: It is not...

Franz Kafka: It is not...

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not...

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Charles Kingsley: He was one...

Charles Kingsley: He was one...

He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use...

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John Dalberg Acton: Guard against the...

John Dalberg Acton: Guard against the...

Guard against the prestige of great names; see that your judgments are your own; and do not shrink from disagreement;...

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George Bancroft: Beauty is but...

George Bancroft: Beauty is but...

Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral...

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Elizabeth Bowen: If you look...

Elizabeth Bowen: If you look...

If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.

Source: The Death of...

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Max Eastman: Dogs laugh, but...

Max Eastman: Dogs laugh, but...

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. What puts man in a higher state of evolution is that he has got his laugh...

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Francois LaRochefoucauld: We promise according...

Francois LaRochefoucauld: We promise according...

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

Source: In...

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Natalie Clifford Barney: There are. ....

Natalie Clifford Barney: There are. ....

There are. . . intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has...

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Natalie Clifford Barney: Fatalism is the...

Natalie Clifford Barney: Fatalism is the...

Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Dr Seuss: I start drawing,...

Dr Seuss: I start drawing,...

I start drawing, and eventually the characters involve themselves in a situation. Then in the end, I go back and try...

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Arthur Conan Doyle: There comes a...

Arthur Conan Doyle: There comes a...

There comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the...

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Arthur Conan Doyle: Mediocrity knows nothing...

Arthur Conan Doyle: Mediocrity knows nothing...

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

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Arthur Conan Doyle: It is my...

Arthur Conan Doyle: It is my...

'It is my duty to warn you that it will be used against you,' cried the Inspector, with the magnificent fair play of...

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Arthur Conan Doyle: Excellent!' I cried....

Arthur Conan Doyle: Excellent!' I cried....

'Excellent!' I cried. 'Elementary,' said he.

Source: Watson talking to Sherlock...

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Arthur Conan Doyle: Life is infinitely...

Arthur Conan Doyle: Life is infinitely...

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things...

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Arthur Conan Doyle: Violence does, in...

Arthur Conan Doyle: Violence does, in...

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for...

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Marcus Fabius Quintilian: The pretended admission...

Marcus Fabius Quintilian: The pretended admission...

The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.

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