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Socrates: I cannot teach...

Socrates: I cannot teach...

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.

Source: In Webster's...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: One must still...

Friedrich Nietzsche: One must still...

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

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Gertrude Stein: The unreal is...

Gertrude Stein: The unreal is...

The unreal is natural, so natural that it makes of unreality the most natural of anything natural. That is what...

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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: There are many...

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: There are many...

There are many little ways to enlarge [your child's] world. Love of books is the best of...

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Rainer M Rilke: Fame is the...

Rainer M Rilke: Fame is the...

Fame is the sum of the misunderstanding that gathers about a new name.

Source: In...

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Paul Verlaine: Take eloquence and...

Paul Verlaine: Take eloquence and...

Take eloquence and wring its neck.

Source: [Prends l'?loquence et tords-lui son...

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Edmund Spenser: The poets' scrolls...

Edmund Spenser: The poets' scrolls...

The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by...

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Bertolt Brecht: As regards obstacles,...

Bertolt Brecht: As regards obstacles,...

As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.

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George Gordon Byron: I really cannot...

George Gordon Byron: I really cannot...

I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very willing to put up...

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Jean-Luc Godard: Cinema is the...

Jean-Luc Godard: Cinema is the...

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Kim Cattrall: Vulcans are so...

Kim Cattrall: Vulcans are so...

Vulcans are so smart. There's no excess; it's just enough. I learned coming away from the film that less really is...

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Rachel Carson: Every mystery solved...

Rachel Carson: Every mystery solved...

Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one.

Source: In...

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Humphrey Davy: To me there...

Humphrey Davy: To me there...

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in...

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Vincent Van Gogh: Do not quench...

Vincent Van Gogh: Do not quench...

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your...

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Salvador Dali: The difference between...

Salvador Dali: The difference between...

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look...

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Sylvester Stallone: When I was...

Sylvester Stallone: When I was...

When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric...

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Earl Nightingale: The more intensely...

Earl Nightingale: The more intensely...

The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will...

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Joseph L Mankiewicz: The difference between...

Joseph L Mankiewicz: The difference between...

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life...

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Lenny Bruce: Miami Beach is...

Lenny Bruce: Miami Beach is...

Miami Beach is where neon goes to die.

Source: In Saturday Review, by Barbara...

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Barbra Streisand: What does it...

Barbra Streisand: What does it...

What does it mean when people applaud? . . . Should I give 'em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of...

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