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Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.: Margaret Fuller (1810 - 1850), Woman in the Nineteenth Century, 1845
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An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.: Dan Rather (1931 - )
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If you believe everything you read, better not read.: Japanese Proverb
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I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake--which I also keep handy.: W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)
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I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities.: Whoopi Goldberg
The computer is a moron.: Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
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An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.: Charles de Montesquieu (1689 - 1755)
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I dwell in possibility...: Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.: Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
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After all is said and done, a lot more will be said than done.: Unknown
Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire.: Arab Proverb
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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.: George Burns (1896 - 1996)
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There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to the same species; and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.: Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988), Caltech commencement address, 1974
A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing... It takes something from the world, and has something to give in return.: Sarah Orne Jewett (1849 - 1909)
Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.: John Updike (1932 - )
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.: Hannah Arendt (1906 - 1975)
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There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.: Emile Chartier
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The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.: Sir William Osler (1849 - 1919), In H. Cushing, Life of Sir William Osler (1925)
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When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and true maxim that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.' So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the great highroad to his reason, and which, once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing him of the justice of your cause, if indeed that cause is really a good one.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)