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Kenneth Grahame: Well, well, perhaps...

Kenneth Grahame: Well, well, perhaps...

Well, well, perhaps I am a bit of a talker. A popular fellow such as I am --my friends get round me --we chaff, we...

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Elias Canetti: One should use...

Elias Canetti: One should use...

One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

Source: The Secret Heart of the...

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Dorothy L Sayers: None of us...

Dorothy L Sayers: None of us...

None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that -- they have...

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Albert Schweitzer: From naive simplicity...

Albert Schweitzer: From naive simplicity...

From naive simplicity we arrive at more profound simplicity.

Source: In The Peter...

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Elizabeth Bowen: Some people are...

Elizabeth Bowen: Some people are...

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

Source:...

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Erich Fromm: Conditions for creativity...

Erich Fromm: Conditions for creativity...

Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to...

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Rollo May: Human freedom involves...

Rollo May: Human freedom involves...

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our...

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Rollo May: Creativity arises out...

Rollo May: Creativity arises out...

Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing...

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Carl Gustav Jung: There is rarely...

Carl Gustav Jung: There is rarely...

There is rarely a creative man who does not have to pay a high price for the divine spark of his great gifts . . . the...

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Charles Horton Cooley: The need to...

Charles Horton Cooley: The need to...

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in...

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Emile Durkheim: Man could not...

Emile Durkheim: Man could not...

Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and...

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David Riesman: Etiquette can be...

David Riesman: Etiquette can be...

Etiquette can be at the same time a means of approaching people and of staying clear of...

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Miguel de Unamuno: There is no...

Miguel de Unamuno: There is no...

There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or...

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Maria Montessori: Never help a...

Maria Montessori: Never help a...

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

Source: In The...

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Patrick Henry: I know no...

Patrick Henry: I know no...

I know no way of judging the future but by the past.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Elizabeth Kenny: The record of...

Elizabeth Kenny: The record of...

The record of one's life must needs prove more interesting to him who writes it than to him who reads what has been...

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Edward F Halifax: True merit, like...

Edward F Halifax: True merit, like...

True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Source: In The...

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David Lloyd George: A politician is...

David Lloyd George: A politician is...

A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a...

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William Temple: Truth will be...

William Temple: Truth will be...

Truth will be uppermost one time or another, like cork, though kept down in the water.

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Marcus Cato: Wise men learn...

Marcus Cato: Wise men learn...

Wise men learn more from fools than fools from wise men.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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