"The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on thoughts and thinking   

"A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one."

Carlyle, Thomas on biography   

"The more intelligent one is, the more men of originality one finds. Ordinary people find no difference between men."

Pascal, Blaise on originality
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"In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create."

Vaneigem, Raoul on industry
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"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."

Mead, Margaret on work
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"We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten."

Pavese, Cesare on memory
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"Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes your wife."

Bundy, Al on wives   

"Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on intelligence and intellectuals
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"He does not weep who does not see."

Hugo, Victor on cries and crying
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"Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last."

Wilde, Oscar on progress   

"One of the signs of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important."

Russell, Bertrand on health
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"Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other."

Sontag, Susan on bores and boredom
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"Writing is the incurable itch that possesses many."

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) on writers and writing   

"Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself."

Levenson, Samuel on happiness
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"No one does anything from a single motive."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on motivation
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"The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such."

Maurois, Andre on leadership   

"Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, and thou art wedded to calamity."

Shakespeare, William on misfortunes   

"The whole effort of a sincere man is to erect his personal impressions into laws."

Gourmont, Remy De on criticism   

"The prisoner is not the one who has committed a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over."

Miller, Henry on prison
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"Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics."

Jung, Carl on masses   

"Neurophysiologists will not likely find what they are looking for, for that which they are looking for is that which is looking."

Floyd, Keith on science   

"I am as my creator made me and since He is satisfied, so am I."

Smith, Minnie on self-esteem
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"Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't --it's human."

Erasmus, Desiderius on nature
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"Insanity in individuals is something rare -- but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on insanity
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"To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness."

Russell, Bertrand on happiness
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"The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational."

Wilson, A. N. on logic
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"Writers are always selling somebody out."

Didion, Joan on writers and writing   

"The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are."

Burroughs, John on opportunity   

"We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone."

Welles, Orson on isolation
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"I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on curiosity
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"Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads."

Chesterfield, Lord on books - reading
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"The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it."

Mencken, H. L. on pleasure   

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"We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows."

Frost, Robert on secrets
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"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."

Einstein, Albert on teacher
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"Even as a tortoise draws in its limbs, the wise can draw in their senses at will."

Bhagavad Gita on choice
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"The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers."

Fromm, Erich on uncertainty
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"A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor."

Hugo, Victor on idleness
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"To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge."

Thoreau, Henry David on knowledge
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"God is only a great imaginative experience."

Lawrence, D. H. on god
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"No, I don't understand my husband's theory of relativity, but I know my husband, and I know he can be trusted."

Einstein, Elsa on trust
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