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Margery Allingham: Mourning is not...

Margery Allingham: Mourning is not...

Mourning is not forgetting. . . . It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and...

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Sissela Bok: While all deception...

Sissela Bok: While all deception...

While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.

Source:...

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Gilbert Ryle: So too Plato...

Gilbert Ryle: So too Plato...

So too Plato was, in my view, a very unreliable Platonist. He was too much of a philosopher to think that anything he...

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Gaston Bachelard: Man is a...

Gaston Bachelard: Man is a...

Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.

Source: The Psychoanalysis of...

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Ludwig Wittgenstein: Logic takes care...

Ludwig Wittgenstein: Logic takes care...

Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein: Resting on your...

Ludwig Wittgenstein: Resting on your...

Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your...

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Robert Graves: Civilization has gotten...

Robert Graves: Civilization has gotten...

Civilization has gotten further and further from the so-called 'natural' man, who uses all his faculties: perception,...

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Stephen King: Talent in cheaper...

Stephen King: Talent in cheaper...

Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard...

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Katherine Anne Porter: You have to...

Katherine Anne Porter: You have to...

You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have...

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Richard Cecil: Self-will so ardent...

Richard Cecil: Self-will so ardent...

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit...

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Harry Emerson Fosdick: He who knows...

Harry Emerson Fosdick: He who knows...

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it...

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Harry Emerson Fosdick: Preaching is personal...

Harry Emerson Fosdick: Preaching is personal...

Preaching is personal counseling on a group basis.

Source: Recalled on his death, 5...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: The growth of...

Friedrich Nietzsche: The growth of...

The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.

Source:...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: Beggars. . ....

Friedrich Nietzsche: Beggars. . ....

Beggars. . . should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: The louder he...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: The louder he...

The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

Source: The...

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Raoul Vaneigem: Our task is...

Raoul Vaneigem: Our task is...

Our task is not to rediscover nature but to remake it.

Source: The Revolution of...

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Raoul Vaneigem: Everything has been...

Raoul Vaneigem: Everything has been...

Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only...

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Raoul Vaneigem: Purchasing power is...

Raoul Vaneigem: Purchasing power is...

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Source: The Revolution of Everyday...

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Raoul Vaneigem: The eruption of...

Raoul Vaneigem: The eruption of...

The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize...

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Lemuel B Haynes: [Satan] is a...

Lemuel B Haynes: [Satan] is a...

[Satan] is a very successful preacher. He draws a great number after him. No preacher can command hearers like him . ....

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