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Jessamyn West: I have done...

Jessamyn West: I have done...

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to...

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Jerome K Jerome: Conceit is the...

Jerome K Jerome: Conceit is the...

Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.

Source: Idle Thoughts of an Idle...

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Jerome K Jerome: There is no...

Jerome K Jerome: There is no...

There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do.

Source: Idle Thoughts...

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Jerome K Jerome: We are so...

Jerome K Jerome: We are so...

We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold...

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Alvin Toffler: One of the...

Alvin Toffler: One of the...

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new...

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Alvin Toffler: Our technological powers...

Alvin Toffler: Our technological powers...

Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also...

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Natalie Clifford Barney: Eternity -- waste...

Natalie Clifford Barney: Eternity -- waste...

Eternity -- waste of time.

Source: Quoted in: Adam, Gods, no. 299 (London,...

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John Galsworthy: A man of...

John Galsworthy: A man of...

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

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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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Dr Seuss: I like nonsense...

Dr Seuss: I like nonsense...

I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at...

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Margery Allingham: He did not...

Margery Allingham: He did not...

He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash...

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Samuel Smiles: Man cannot aspire...

Samuel Smiles: Man cannot aspire...

Man cannot aspire if he looks down; if he rises, he must look up.

Source: In The...

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Samuel Smiles: Labor is still,...

Samuel Smiles: Labor is still,...

Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is...

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Francois LaRochefoucauld: Hope is the...

Francois LaRochefoucauld: Hope is the...

Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us,...

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Marguerite Duras: Nowhere is one...

Marguerite Duras: Nowhere is one...

Nowhere is one more alone than in Paris. . . and yet surrounded by crowds. Nowhere is one more likely to incur greater...

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Margaret Atwood: Popular art is...

Margaret Atwood: Popular art is...

Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.

Source: AQuestion...

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Kingsley Amis: Outside every fat...

Kingsley Amis: Outside every fat...

Outside every fat man there is an even fatter man trying to close in.

Source: One...

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Helen Hunt Jackson: Find me the...

Helen Hunt Jackson: Find me the...

Find me the men on earth who care
Enough for faith or creed today
To seek a barren wilderness
For simple...

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F Scott Fitzgerald: To write it,...

F Scott Fitzgerald: To write it,...

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it -- three minutes; to collect the data in it -- all my...

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Henry James, Jr: To take what...

Henry James, Jr: To take what...

To take what there is, and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived -- to dig deep into the actual...

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