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Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
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But my estimates, for instance, based upon book information, were simply ridiculous, fanciful images of African attractions were soon dissipated, anticipated pleasures vanished, and all crude ideas began to resolve themselves into shape.
Henry Morton Stanley
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I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: Try to please everybody.
Herbert Bayard Swope
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Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials, or none at all.
Gerald W. Johnson
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All through the night, like the tumult of a river when it races between the cliffs of a canyon, in my sleep I could hear the steady roar of the passing army.
Richard Harding Davis
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Even the distribution of rations leaves much to be desired; the fatigue party, well-intentioned and sympathetic though it be, often finds itself short of provisions.
Patrick MacGill
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As we see censorship it is a stupid giant traffic policeman answering "Yes" to "Am I my brother's copper?" He guards a one-way street and his semaphore has four signs, all marked "stop.
Franklin Pierce Adams
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The future of Thought and therefore of History lies in the hands of physicists, and therefore the future historian must seek his education in the world of mathematical physics.
Henry Adams
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As the acceptance of democracy brings a certain life-giving power, so it has its own sanctions and comforts. Perhaps the most obvious one is the curious sense which comes to us from time to time, that we belong to the whole, that a certain basic well being can never be taken away from us whatever the turn of fortune.
Jane Addams
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We shall lodge at the sign of the Grave, you say;
Well, the road is a long one we trudge, my friend,
So why should we grieve at the break of the day?
Let us sing, let us drink, let us love, let us play,—
We can keep our sights for the journey's end.
Percy Addleshaw
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Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, Make me a child again just for tonight!
Elizabeth Chase Allen
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Shall any gazer see with mortal eyes, Or any searcher know by mortal mind; Veil upon veil will lift but there must be Veil upon veil behind.
Edwin Arnold
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He was going to die, and who knows that it could be in that same night? What crime had he committed in his entire life? None. He has carried all his life with the mirage of studying his nation, loving it, intending to contribute to its happiness and prosperity. He has spent all his adolescence in this project, and all his virility too. And now, in his elder ages, how did life return him this favor? Killing him!
Lima Barreto
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Up to now you have believed in the existence of tyrants. Well, you were mistaken. There are only slaves. Where none obeys, none commands.
Anselme Bellegarrigue
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Man and woman have each of them qualities and tempers in which the other is deficient, and which in union contribute to the common felicity.
Park Benjamin, Sr.
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Certainly the worker has nothing to lose by a change from government and capitalism to a condition of no government, of anarchy.
Alexander Berkman
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April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
Ambrose Bierce
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Of all the many and (thanks to a free press) the ever-multiplying blessings attendant upon the "glorious constitution" of literature, not the least precious and profitable to a modern cultivator of systems and syllables, in pamphlets, magazines, and folios, is the right of Quotation.
Samuel Laman Blanchard
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To a prison visitor who asked if he were sewing:
No, reaping.
Horatio Bottomley
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The great threat to the young and pure in heart is not what they read but what they don't read.
Heywood Broun
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On rolls the stream with a perpetual sigh;
The rocks moan wildly as it passes by;
Hyssop and wormwood border all the strand,
And not a flower adorns the dreary land.
William Cullen Bryant
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It 's no matter what you do
If your heart be only true,
And his heart was true to Poll.
Francis Burnand
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The laws of cricket tell of the English love of compromise between a particular freedom and a general orderliness, or legality.
Neville Cardus
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The citron or spicy grove for me would never yield A perfume half so grateful as the lilies of the field.
Eliza Cook
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There is nothing-
No life,
No joy,
No pain-
There is nothing save opinion,
And opinion be damned.
Stephen Crane
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