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- Beauty is a form of genius--is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- What then have I done? What, except yield to a natural feeling, inspired by beauty, sanctioned by virtue and kept at all times within the bounds of respect. It's innocent expression prompted not by hope but by trust.
- Vicomte de Valmont, Les Liaisons Dangereuses
- In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
- Procrastination is the thief of time.
- Edward Young (1683 - 1765)
- We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904 - 1991), New York Times Magazine, Nov. 26, 1978
- What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904 - 1991), New York Times Magazine, Nov. 26, 1978
- The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual -- when it begins to ignore the passions, the motions -- it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904 - 1991), New York Times Magazine, Nov. 26, 1978
- When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904 - 1991), New York Times Magazine, Mar. 12, 1978
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