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Kingsley Amis: Feeling a tremendous...

Kingsley Amis: Feeling a tremendous...

Feeling a tremendous rakehell, and not liking myself much for it, and feeling rather a good chap for not liking myself...

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Francoise d'Aubigne de Maintenon: There is an...

Francoise d'Aubigne de Maintenon: There is an...

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the...

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Napoleon Bonaparte: Ability is nothing...

Napoleon Bonaparte: Ability is nothing...

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

Source: In Quotable Business, ed. Louis E....

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Napoleon Bonaparte: It is the...

Napoleon Bonaparte: It is the...

It is the cause and not merely the death that makes the martyr.

Source: In Correct...

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Charles A Beard: The bee fertilizes...

Charles A Beard: The bee fertilizes...

The bee fertilizes the flower it robs.

Source: Four Lessons of History, in Readers'...

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J B S Haldane: Cancer's a Funny...

J B S Haldane: Cancer's a Funny...

Cancer's a Funny Thing:
I wish I had the voice of Homer
To sing of rectal carcinoma,
Which kills a lot more...

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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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Michael Crichton: Scientific power is...

Michael Crichton: Scientific power is...

Scientific power is like inherited wealth; attained without discipline. You read about what others have done, and you...

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Michael Crichton: Absence of proof...

Michael Crichton: Absence of proof...

Absence of proof is not proof of absence.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Michael Crichton: If true computer...

Michael Crichton: If true computer...

If true computer music were ever written, it would only be listened to by other computers.

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Madeleine L'Engle: Sometimes idiosyncrasies which...

Madeleine L'Engle: Sometimes idiosyncrasies which...

Sometimes idiosyncrasies which used to be irritating become endearing, part of the complexity of a partner who has...

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A A Milne: If the English...

A A Milne: If the English...

If the English language had been properly organized . . . then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she',...

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Mark Twain: Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity...

Mark Twain: Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity...

Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity -- these are strictly confined to man; he invented them. Among the higher animals...

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Aldous Huxley: To his dog,...

Aldous Huxley: To his dog,...

To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.

Source:...

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Martha Carey Thomas: One thing I...

Martha Carey Thomas: One thing I...

One thing I am determined on is that by the time I die my brain shall weigh as much as a man's if study and learning...

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Sigmund Freud: Knowledge is the...

Sigmund Freud: Knowledge is the...

Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.

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Malcolm Bradbury: English history is...

Malcolm Bradbury: English history is...

English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and...

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Amos Bronson Alcott: Our notion of...

Amos Bronson Alcott: Our notion of...

Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: In music the...

Friedrich Nietzsche: In music the...

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

Source: x
-- Friedrich Nietzsche, (Oct...

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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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