Miscellaneous Quotes

• "And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends stolen forth of Holy Writ And seem a saint when most I play the devil."
  By: William Shakespeare, Richard III, 1593
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• "All our scientific and philosophic ideals are altars to unknown gods."
  By: William James, The Dilemma of Determinism, 1884
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• "Revolutions are not made: they come. A revolution is as natural as an oak tree. It comes out of the past; its foundations are laid far back."
  By: Wendell Phillips, Address, Anti-Slavery Society, 1852
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• "Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles."
  By: Washington Irving, The Sketch Book, 1820
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• "Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world."
  By: Walter Savage Landor
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• "Architecture begins where engineering ends."
  By: Walter Gropius
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• "Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes."
  By: Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1892
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• "There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself."
  By: W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up, 1938
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• "To understand any living thing, you must, so to say, creep within and feel the beating of its heart."
  By: W. Macneile Dixon
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• "Doubt is not a pleasant state of mind, but certainty is absurd."
  By: Voltaire, 1767
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• "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
  By: Upton Sinclair
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• "I think the enemy is here before us.... I think the enemy is simple selfishness and compulsive greed.... I think he stole our earth from us, destroyed our wealth, and ravaged and despoiled our land."
  By: Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again, 1949
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• "No man sees far; the most see no farther than their noses."
  By: Thomas Carlyle, Count Cagliostro, 1833
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• "A curse on every wish that blurs the sight, paralyzes the tongue, cramps the hand, and prevents the truth being seen, said, and written."
  By: Theodor Haecker
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• "A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good."
  By: T.S. Eliot, New York Post, 22 September 1963
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• "The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm."
  By: Samuel Johnson
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