"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."

Hoffer, Eric on learning
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"Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies."

Bowen, Elizabeth on jealousy
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"In jealousy there is more of self-love than love."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on jealousy
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"Love may be blind but jealousy has 20-20 vision."

Unknown, Source on jealousy
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"Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands."

Wilde, Oscar on jealousy
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"Indecision and delays are the parents of failure."

Canning, George on decisions
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"Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on decisions
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"Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why."

Baruch, Bernard M. on ask
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"You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that."

Charles, Prince Of Wales on architecture   

"The only legitimate artists in England are the architects."

Haydon, Benjamin on architecture   

"All architects want to live beyond their deaths."

Johnson, Philip on architecture   

"The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian condition: here it is the mighty act of will, the will which moves mountains, the intoxication of the strong will, which demands artistic expression. The most powerful men have always inspired the architects; the architect has always been influenced by power."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on architecture
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"We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears!"

Ruskin, John on architecture   

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"No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder."

Ruskin, John on architecture   

"When we build, let us think that we build for ever."

Ruskin, John on architecture   

"An archaeologist is someone whose career lies in ruins."

Unknown, Source on archaeologist   

"That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward."

Hemingway, Ernest on depression
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"Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones."

Hemingway, Ernest on exaggeration
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"I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy."

Hemingway, Ernest on fights and fighting   

"All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since."

Hemingway, Ernest on literature
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"It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully."

Aristotle on lies and lying
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"Never to lie is to have no lock to your door, you are never wholly alone."

Bowen, Elizabeth on lies and lying
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"I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy."

Butler, Samuel on lies and lying
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"Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true."

Canetti, Elias on lies and lying
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"I am a lie who always speaks the truth."

Cocteau, Jean on lies and lying
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"To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself."

Beecher, Henry Ward on secrets
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"I know that's a secret, for it's whispered everywhere."

Congreve, William on secrets
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"Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted."

Delillo, Don on secrets
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"Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us."

Hubbard, Elbert on secrets   

"A man can keep a secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others."

La Bruyere, Jean De on secrets
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"Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through."

Unknown, Source on change
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"What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet."

Allen, Woody on illusion
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"I'd never join a club that would allow a person like me to become a member."

Allen, Woody on club
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"Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one consider that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies."

Allen, Woody on crime and criminals   

"I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist."

Kempton, Sally on feminism   

"To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did, I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times."

Twain, Mark on smoking   

"Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half."

Vidal, Gore on voting
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"Our elections are free -- it's in the results where eventually we pay."

Stern, Bill on voting   

"When a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me."

Truman, Harry S on voting   

"When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: I never stole anything in my life. All I ask is a chance."

Unknown, Source on voting