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James Arthur Baldwin
You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can't, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the world... The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way ... people look at reality, then you can change it.
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Rudyard Kipling
Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
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Oscar Wilde
While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first is personality, which no one should copy; the second is perfection, which all should aim at.
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Oscar Wilde
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
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Ernest Rutherford
All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
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Charlotte Whitton
Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult.
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Peretz Smolenskin
There are many fine ideals which are not realisable, and yet we do not refrain from teaching them.
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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.
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Leo Tolstoy
I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.
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Henry James
Three things in human life are important the first is to be kind the second is to be kind and the third is to be kind.
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Daniel Webster, last words, 24 October 1852.
I still live.
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