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Homer: It is always...

Homer: It is always...

It is always the latest song that an audience applauds the most.

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Lydia M Child: There was a...

Lydia M Child: There was a...

There was a time when all these things would have passed me by, like the flitting figures of a theatre, sufficient for...

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Eudora Welty: What I do...

Eudora Welty: What I do...

What I do in the writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart and skin of a human being who is not...

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Fawn M Brodie: Housework is a...

Fawn M Brodie: Housework is a...

Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like...

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Henry James, Jr: Ideas are, in...

Henry James, Jr: Ideas are, in...

Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes...

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Aesop: Kindness effects more...

Aesop: Kindness effects more...

Kindness effects more than severity.

Source: 'The Wind and the Sun'
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Dorothy L Sayers: While time lasts...

Dorothy L Sayers: While time lasts...

While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made...

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Albert Schweitzer: The only ones...

Albert Schweitzer: The only ones...

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to...

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Ferdinand Foch: The fundamental qualities...

Ferdinand Foch: The fundamental qualities...

The fundamental qualities for good execution of a plan is first; intelligence; then discernment and judgment, which...

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T E Lawrence: The literature of...

T E Lawrence: The literature of...

The literature of disease is more interesting to me than all the healthy books.

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F Scott Fitzgerald: An idea ran...

F Scott Fitzgerald: An idea ran...

An idea ran back and forward in his head like a blind man, knocking over the solid...

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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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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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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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Hannah Arendt: Economic growth may...

Hannah Arendt: Economic growth may...

Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into...

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Joel A Barker: Vision without action...

Joel A Barker: Vision without action...

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the...

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Wilhelm von Humboldt: Coercion may prevent...

Wilhelm von Humboldt: Coercion may prevent...

Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom...

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A E Housman: Great literature should...

A E Housman: Great literature should...

Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his...

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Warren E Burger: Free speech carries...

Warren E Burger: Free speech carries...

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Source: Majority opinion in 7-1...

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