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The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.: Joseph Priestley
Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his great works, we might see nothing very extraordinary in the process.: Joseph Priestley
In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones.: Joseph Priestley
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Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing.: Joseph Priestley
What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.: Joseph Priestley
...free time is an illusion. It's what you get when you die and the gods reward you for a life spent working from dawn until midnight.: Tamora Pierce, Alanna The First Adventure
Be warned against all 'good' advice because 'good' advice is necessarily 'safe' advice, and though it will undoubtedly follow a sane pattern, it will very likely lead one into total sterility--one of the crushing problems of our time.: Jules Feiffer (1929 - )
My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: when you write, try to leave out all the parts readers skip.: Elmore Leonard
He who learns must suffer, and, even in our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.: Aeschylus (525 BC - 456 BC)
The curse of modern times is, that almost everything does create controversy.: Horace Walpole (1717 - 1797), Letter to Sir David Dalrymple, 1770

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