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Perhaps middle-age is,...

Perhaps middle-age is,...

Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material...

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There is no...

There is no...

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do. The fun is in having lots to do and not doing...

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It isn't true...

It isn't true...

It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.

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Worship your heroes...

Worship your heroes...

Worship your heroes from afar; contact withers them.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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I think we...

I think we...

I think we are all of us a pretty milky lot, without tea-table convictions and our radicalism that keeps so...

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This life is...

This life is...

This life is a war we are not yet winning for our daughters' children.
Don't do your enemies' work for...

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A man loses...

A man loses...

A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last.

Source: In...

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Marcel Proust: A powerful idea...

Marcel Proust: A powerful idea...

A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

Source:...

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Ellen Glasgow: No matter how...

Ellen Glasgow: No matter how...

No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless...

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Ellen Glasgow: A tragic irony...

Ellen Glasgow: A tragic irony...

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which...

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Daniel Defoe: He bade me...

Daniel Defoe: He bade me...

He bade me observe it, and I should always find, that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower...

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Jean Paul: Humankind's chief fault...

Jean Paul: Humankind's chief fault...

Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones.

Source: In The...

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Stephen Leacock: What we call...

Stephen Leacock: What we call...

What we call creative work ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. . . . I imagine that Thomas Edison...

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bell hooks: Being oppressed means...

bell hooks: Being oppressed means...

Being oppressed means the absence of choices.

Source: Feminist Theory, ch.1,...

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bell hooks: It is poetry...

bell hooks: It is poetry...

It is poetry that changes everything.

Source: Black Is a Woman's Color, 1989.
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Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus: He who knows...

Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus: He who knows...

He who knows nothing, loves nothing.
He who can do nothing understands nothing.
He who understands nothing is...

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Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus: Poison is in...

Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus: Poison is in...

Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a...

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Peter Mere Latham: How is it...

Peter Mere Latham: How is it...

How is it that in medicine Truth is thus measured out to us in fragments, and we are never put in trust of it as a...

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Claude Bernard: Science does not...

Claude Bernard: Science does not...

Science does not permit exceptions.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference...

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Beatrice Hinkle: The creator does...

Beatrice Hinkle: The creator does...

The creator does not create only for the pleasure of creating but . . . he also desires to subdue other...

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