Quotes 1921 till 1940 of 20393.
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An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.
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An educational method that shall have liberty as its basis must intervene to help the child to a conquest of liberty. That is to say, his training must be such as shall help him to diminish as much as possible the social bonds which limit his activity.
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An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.
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An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
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An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
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An event described by those to whom it was told by men who did not see it.
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An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
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An honor is not diminished for being shared.
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An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.
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An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.
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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
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An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.
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An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.
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An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt.
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An objection is not a rejection; it is simply a request for more information.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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An often-repeated assertion in the body of film criticism I have written is the assertion that movies do not just mirror the culture of any given time; they also create it.
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An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is always possible to be happy.
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An organisation that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only.
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An orgasm joins you to the past. Its timelessness becomes the brotherhood; the brethren are lovers; they extend the ''family.'' I share that sexuality. It was then, is now and will be in the future.
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