Adrienne Rich, lecture, Scripps College (Claremont, California,
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Memory is a nutriment, and seeds stored for centuries can still germi-nate. -Adrienne Rich, lecture, Scripps College (Claremont, California,
1983), Blood, Bread, and Poetry
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Margaret Thatcher, interview, The Washington Post (Washington, DC), 1989
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Graciousness has been replaced by surliness in much of everyday life.
-Margaret Thatcher, interview, The Washington Post (Washington,
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A. E. Housman, No. IX, Last Poems, 1922
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We
for a certainty are not the first / Have sat in taverns while the
tem-pest hurled / Their hopeful plans to emptiness, and cursed /
Whatever
brute and blackguard made the world. -A. E. Housman, No. IX, Last
Poems, 1922
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Václav Havel, quoted in The International Herald Tribune (Paris), 1990
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The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human
heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human
responsibility. -Václav Havel, quoted in The International Herald
Tribune (Paris), 1990
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Martin Amis, quoted in The Guardian (London), 2001
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Our best destiny, as planetary cohabitants, is the development of what
has been called "species consciousness"-something over and above
nationalisms, blocs, religions, ethnicities. -Martin Amis, quoted in
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Peace Pilgrim, Her Life and Work
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The price of peace is to abandon greed and replace it with giving,
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Edna St. Vincent Millay, "Epitaph for the Race of Man," Wine from These Grapes, 1939
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... What frosty fate's in store / For the warm
blood of man,-man, out of ooze / But lately
crawled, and climbing up the shore?
-Edna St. Vincent Millay, "Epitaph for the Race of Man,"
Wine from These Grapes, 1939
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Germaine de Staël, The Influence of Literature upon Society, 1800
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Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's
power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must
be strengthened. -Germaine de Staël, The Influence of Literature upon
Society, 1800
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Václav Havel, Disturbing the Peace, 1986
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Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest
point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get
around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it. -Václav Havel, Disturbing
the Peace, 1986
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Sam Harris, The End of Faith, 2005
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Where we have reasons for what we believe, we have no need of faith;
where we have no reasons, we have lost both our connection to the
world and to one another. -Sam Harris, The End of Faith, 2005
Dorothy Parker, The New Yorker
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I love to drink Martinis, / Two at the very most
/ Three, I'm under the table; / Four, I'm under
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-Dorothy Parker, The New Yorker
Alice Walker, The Color Purple, 1982
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You know a little drink now and then never hurt nobody, but when
you can't git started without asking the bottle, you in trouble. -Alice
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W. C. Fields, My Little Chickadee, 1940
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Once ... in the wilds of Afghanistan, I lost my corkscrew, and we were
forced to live on nothing but food and water for days. -W. C. Fields,
My Little Chickadee, 1940
P. J. O'Rourke, Republican Party Reptile, 1987
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Our nation has withstood many divisions-North and South, black
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Molière, Don Juan, 1665
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There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and
whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live. -Molière, Don
Juan, 1665
Groucho Marx, A Day at the Races, 1937
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A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke.
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George Burns, inter-view with Arthur Marx, Cigar Aficionado (New York), 1994
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If I'd taken my doctor's advice and quit smoking when he advised me
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Rita Rudner, "Speaker of the House," ritafunny.com, 2003
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A man who doesn't listen to anything I say wanted to hear strangers
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Gregory Maguire, Wicked, 1995
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The more civilized we become, the more
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George Eliot, Daniel Deronda, 1874-1876
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Hostesses
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their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.
-George Eliot, Daniel Deronda, 1874-1876
Václav Havel, acceptance address, Nobel Peace Prize (Stockholm), 1989
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I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the
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ten military divisions. -Václav Havel, acceptance address, Nobel Peace
Prize (Stockholm), 1989
Fran Drescher, perfectpeople.com, 2003
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I read for the part of Elizabeth, the virgin queen. I thought they said
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in my house is the olive oil. -Fran Drescher, perfectpeople.com, 2003
Adlai Stevenson, address, Democratic National Convention (Chicago), 1952
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Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one. -Adlai Stevenson, address, Democratic National Convention (Chicago), 1952
Honoré de Balzac, "Letters of Two Brides," La Press, 1841-1842
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A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity. -Honoré de Balzac,
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Václav Havel, acceptance address, Nobel Peace Prize (Stockholm), 1989
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There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than
unwarranted trust in them. -Václav Havel, acceptance address, Nobel
Peace Prize (Stockholm), 1989
Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays
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To use many words to communicate few thoughts is everywhere the
unmistakable sign of mediocrity. To gather much thought into few
words stamps the man of genius. -Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays
Phyllis McGinley, "Reflections at Dawn," Times Three, 1960
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Buffet, ball, banquet, quilting bee, / Wherever conversation's flowing, /
Why must I feel it falls on me / To keep things going? -Phyllis
McGinley, "Reflections at Dawn," Times Three, 1960
Barack Obama, quoted in The New Yorker (New York), 2004
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A good compromise ... is like a good sentence; or a good piece of
music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, "Huh. It works. It makes
sense. "-Barack Obama, quoted in The New Yorker (New York), 2004
Eleanor Roosevelt, quoted by A. David Gurewitsch, The New York Times, (New York), 1960
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We have to face the fact that either all of us
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York Times, (New York), 1960
Barbara Walters, How to Talk with Practically Anybody About Practically Anything, 1970
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... When a conversation becomes a monologue, poked along with tiny
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Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, 1813
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For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at
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Carl Jung, Aion, 1951
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Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not
know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows
what it is not. -Carl Jung, Aion, 1951
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Pearl S. Buck, What America Means to Me, 1942
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Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can
be recalled and perhaps remedied. -Pearl S. Buck, What America
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Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt, inscribed on the Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site (New York)
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The only one who makes no mistakes is one
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Jane Austen, Emma, 1815
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But after all the punishment that misconduct can bring, it is still not
less misconduct. Pain is no expiation. -Jane Austen, Emma, 1815
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Andy Warhol, From A to B and Back Again, 1975
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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation
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Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman, 1949
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For a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life. He don't put a bolt to a
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there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine .... A salesman is
got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory. -Arthur Miller, Death
of a Salesman, 1949
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Gloria Steinem, quoted by John Brady, Writer's Digest (Cincinnati), 1974
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The definition of women's work is shitwork. -Gloria Steinem, quoted
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Maria Edgeworth, Harry and Lucy, 1801
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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, / All play and no work
makes Jack a mere toy. -Maria Edgeworth, Harry and Lucy, 1801
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Joanna Baillie, "Rhymes," Fugitive Verses, 1790
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Busy work brings after ease; / Ease brings sport and sport brings rest;
/ For young and old, of all degrees, / The mingled lot is best. -Joanna
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Anita Roddick, Body and Soul, 1991
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You have to look at leadership through the eyes of the followers and you
have to live the message. What I have learned is that people become
motivated when you guide them to the source of their own power and
when you make heroes out of employees who personify what you want
to see in the organization. -Anita Roddick, Body and Soul, 1991
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Fred Allen, Treadmill to Oblivion, 1954
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A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive
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molehill on his desk. He has until 5 p.m.
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accomplished molehill man will often have his
mountain finished before lunch.
-Fred Allen, Treadmill to Oblivion, 1954
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Fred Allen, radio show
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Committee-a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a
group decide that nothing can be done. -Fred Allen, radio show
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Woody Allen, Take the Money and Run, 1968
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I think crime pays. The hours are good, you
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-Woody Allen, Take the Money and Run, 1968
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Marilyn Monroe, "Acting," Marilyn Monroe In Her Own Words, 1990
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My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. I seem to have
a whole superstructure with no foundation-but I'm working on the
foundation. -Marilyn Monroe, "Acting," Marilyn Monroe In Her Own
Words, 1990
George Eliot, Middlemarch, 1871-1872
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Failure after long perseverance is much
grander than never to have a striving good
enough to be called a failure.
-George Eliot, Middlemarch, 1871-1872
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Mae West, My Little Chickadee, 1940
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I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it. -Mae West, My
Little Chickadee, 1940
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Ruth Gordon, Years Ago, 1946
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I got anything I want to have; but I'll never have anything at all if trou-ble makes me go and give up! -Ruth Gordon, Years Ago, 1946
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Barbara Ehrenreich, "Wimps," The Worst Years of Our Lives, 1991
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Someone has to stand up for wimps. -Barbara Ehrenreich, "Wimps,"
The Worst Years of Our Lives, 1991
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Garrison Keilor, "When I'm 64," Salon.com, 8 August 2006
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Jesus said the meek would inherit the earth, but so far all we've gotten
is Minnesota and North Dakota. -Garrison Keilor, "When I'm 64,"
Salon.com, 8 August 2006
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Alice Walker, The Color Purple, 1982
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But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.
-Alice Walker, The Color Purple, 1982
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Carl Jung, "The Transcendent Function" (1916), The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche, R. F. C. Hull, tr., 1960
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Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health. -Carl Jung,
"The Transcendent Function" (1916), The Structure and Dynamics of the
Psyche, R. F. C. Hull, tr., 1960
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Molière, Les Précieuses Ridicules, 1659
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I always write a good first line, but I have trouble in writing the others.
-Molière, Les Précieuses Ridicules, 1659
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Isadora Duncan, curtain speech, Symphony Hall (Boston), 1922
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You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you! -Isadora Duncan,
curtain speech, Symphony Hall (Boston), 1922
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Ursula K. Le Guin, "The Stone Ax and the Muskoxen," The Language of the Night, 1979
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The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst
walls are the ones you put there-you build yourself. Those are the high
ones, the thick ones, the ones with no doors in. -Ursula K. Le Guin,
"The Stone Ax and the Muskoxen," The Language of the Night, 1979
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Rudyard Kipling, "If-," Reward and Fairies, 1910
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If you can keep your head when all about you / Are losing theirs-and
blaming it on you. -Rudyard Kipling, "If-," Reward and Fairies, 1910
Emily Dickinson, No. 67, Poems, Johnson
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Success is counted sweetest / By those who ne'er succeed. -Emily
Dickinson, No. 67, Poems, Johnson
James Carville, motto
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When your opponent is drowning, throw the
son of a bitch an anvil.
-James Carville, motto
Annie Sullivan, letter (1887), quoted by Helen Keller, The Story of My Life, 1903
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... People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most
insignificant success is achieved. -Annie Sullivan, letter (1887), quoted
by Helen Keller, The Story of My Life, 1903
George Sand, The Marquise, 1869
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My strength has not equaled my mad ambition. I have remained
obscure; I have done worse-I have touched success, and allowed it to
escape me. -George Sand, The Marquise, 1869
John Lennon, Lennon Remembers, Jann Wenner, ed., 1970
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You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles
are the biggest bastards on earth. -John Lennon, Lennon Remembers,
Jann Wenner, ed., 1970
Oprah Winfrey, quoted by Robert Waldron, Oprah!, 1987
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The great thing about attaining some level of success in your life is
being spiritually in a place where you accept it and feel good about it ...
and not be afraid that tomorrow it's going to end. -Oprah Winfrey,
quoted by Robert Waldron, Oprah!, 1987
William Shakespeare, The Tempest, 1610
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We are such stuff / As dreams are made on; and our little life / Is
rounded with a sleep. -William Shakespeare, The Tempest, 1610
Jesse Jackson, address, Democratic National Convention (Chicago), 26 August 1996
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Burdens shared are easier to bear.
-Jesse Jackson, address, Democratic National Convention
(Chicago), 26 August 1996
Langston Hughes, "Harlem," A Dream Deferred, 1951
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What happens to a dream deferred? / / Does it dry up / like a raisin in
the sun? -Langston Hughes, "Harlem," A Dream Deferred, 1951
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