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Werner Karl Heisenberg: Every tool carries...

Werner Karl Heisenberg: Every tool carries...

Every tool carries with it the spirit by which it had been created.

Source: In...

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Lily Tomlin: Man invented language...

Lily Tomlin: Man invented language...

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Judy Garland: How strange when...

Judy Garland: How strange when...

How strange when an illusion dies, it's as though you've lost a child.

Source: An...

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Emma Lazarus: Jews are the...

Emma Lazarus: Jews are the...

Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt.

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Luigi Pirandello: When the characters...

Luigi Pirandello: When the characters...

When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in...

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Rainer M Rilke: No one in...

Rainer M Rilke: No one in...

No one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every...

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Italo Calvino: A classic is...

Italo Calvino: A classic is...

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

Source: Why...

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Socrates: How many things...

Socrates: How many things...

How many things I can do without!

Source: In Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, by...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: The great man...

Friedrich Nietzsche: The great man...

The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and...

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Siegfried Sassoon: The song was...

Siegfried Sassoon: The song was...

The song was wordless;
The singing will never be done.


Source: Everyone...

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Hannah Arendt: Under conditions of...

Hannah Arendt: Under conditions of...

Under conditions of tyranny, it is far easier to act than to think.

Source: quoted...

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Hannah Arendt: Only the mob...

Hannah Arendt: Only the mob...

Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by...

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Maria Edgeworth: When one illusion...

Maria Edgeworth: When one illusion...

When one illusion vanishes, another shall appear, and, still leading me forward towards an horizon that retreats as I...

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George Orwell: Who controls the...

George Orwell: Who controls the...

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

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Italo Calvino: The satirist is...

Italo Calvino: The satirist is...

The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is...

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Malcolm Bradbury: English history is...

Malcolm Bradbury: English history is...

English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and...

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Politics are a...

Politics are a...

Politics are a lousy way for a free man to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last...

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In isolation I...

In isolation I...

In isolation I ruthlessly plow the deep silences, seeking my opportunities like a miner seeking veins of treasures. In...

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That was always...

That was always...

That was always the difference between Muhammed Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely...

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A good many...

A good many...

A good many inconveniences attend playgoing in any large city, but the greatest of them is usually the play...

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