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Douglas Coupland: Cloning is great....

Douglas Coupland: Cloning is great....

Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine.

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Edmund Clerihew Bentley: Sir Humphry Davy<br>Abominated...

Edmund Clerihew Bentley: Sir Humphry Davy
Abominated...

Sir Humphry Davy
Abominated gravy.
He lived in the odium
Of having discovered...

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Frederick Douglass: We have to...

Frederick Douglass: We have to...

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

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James Fenimore Cooper: The Americans ....

James Fenimore Cooper: The Americans ....

The Americans . . . are almost ignorant of the art of music, one of the most elevating, innocent and refining of human...

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James Michener: The permanent temptation...

James Michener: The permanent temptation...

The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are...

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Henry Miller: The world itself...

Henry Miller: The world itself...

The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of...

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Thomas Wolfe: If a man...

Thomas Wolfe: If a man...

If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the...

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Tillie Olsen: I could not...

Tillie Olsen: I could not...

I could not live by literature if only to begin with, because of the slow maturing of my work and its special...

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Elizabeth Stuart Phelps: What an immense...

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps: What an immense...

What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very...

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Judith Guest: He had led...

Judith Guest: He had led...

He had led off being a perfectionist when he discovered that not promptly kept appointments, not a house circumspectly...

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Dorothy Miller Richardson: It will all...

Dorothy Miller Richardson: It will all...

It will all go on as long as women are stupid enough to go on bringing men into the world. ....

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Anne Rice: To really ask...

Anne Rice: To really ask...

To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the...

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Anne Rice: The truth is,...

Anne Rice: The truth is,...

The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly...

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P G Wodehouse: I spent the...

P G Wodehouse: I spent the...

I spent the afternoon musing on Life. If you come to think of it, what a queer thing Life is! So unlike anything else,...

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P G Wodehouse: If I had...

P G Wodehouse: If I had...

If I had had to choose between him and a cockroach as a companion for a walking-tour, the cockroach would have had it...

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Christopher Morley: The real purpose...

Christopher Morley: The real purpose...

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

Source:...

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Christopher Morley: A man who...

Christopher Morley: A man who...

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

Source: In Webster's...

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Mark Twain: The man with...

Mark Twain: The man with...

The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Source: Following the...

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Mark Twain: Name the greatest...

Mark Twain: Name the greatest...

Name the greatest of all the inventors. Accident.

Source: Notebook, 1935.
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Jean Ingelow: It is not...

Jean Ingelow: It is not...

It is not reason which makes faith hard, but life.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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