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Kingman Brewster, Jr: We all live...

Kingman Brewster, Jr: We all live...

We all live in a televised goldfish bowl.

Source: Speech, 5 May 1978.
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Martha Carey Thomas: The man's world...

Martha Carey Thomas: The man's world...

The man's world must become a man's and a woman's world. Why are we afraid?

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Henry David Thoreau: The words which...

Henry David Thoreau: The words which...

The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense...

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Emile Durkheim: One cannot long...

Emile Durkheim: One cannot long...

One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain...

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Emile Durkheim: The wise man,...

Emile Durkheim: The wise man,...

The wise man, knowing how to enjoy achieved results without having constantly to replace them with others, finds in...

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Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: That past which...

Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: That past which...

That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past...

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Sun Tzu [Wu]: There is no...

Sun Tzu [Wu]: There is no...

There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare.

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Siegfried Sassoon: Soldiers and dreamers;...

Siegfried Sassoon: Soldiers and dreamers;...

Soldiers and dreamers; when the guns begin
They think of fire lit homes, clean beds, and...

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Hannah Arendt: Total loyalty is...

Hannah Arendt: Total loyalty is...

Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might...

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Lin Yutang: It is not...

Lin Yutang: It is not...

It is not so much what you believe in that matters, it?s more the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate...

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Aldous Huxley: Nonsense is an...

Aldous Huxley: Nonsense is an...

Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of...

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Aldous Huxley: The secret of...

Aldous Huxley: The secret of...

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your...

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Lois McMaster Bujold: Reputation is what...

Lois McMaster Bujold: Reputation is what...

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

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Aldous Huxley: If it were...

Aldous Huxley: If it were...

If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay - in solid cash - the arts would perish with their starving...

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Alexandre Dumas, p?re: No matter how...

Alexandre Dumas, p?re: No matter how...

No matter how hardened to danger a man may be, he always realizes from the pounding of his heart and the shivering of...

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William McFee: People don't ever...

William McFee: People don't ever...

People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right's no guarantee against...

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Agatha Christie: I don't think...

Agatha Christie: I don't think...

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention -- invention . . . arises directly from idleness, possibly also...

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Franz Kafka: I think we...

Franz Kafka: I think we...

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.

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One of the...

One of the...

One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.

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In England we...

In England we...

In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the...

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