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It is quite possible for people who have never met us and who have spent only twenty minutes thinking about us to come to a better understanding of who we are than people who have known us for years.: Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, 2005
We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for.: Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, 2005
A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind.: Robert Oxton Bolton
Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares.: Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?: Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
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How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be ''American'' before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries?: Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
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I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.: Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.: Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
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In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.: Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
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Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.: Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)

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