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  • Iris Murdoch Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Gene Fowler Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.
    Gene Fowler
    American journalist, author and dramatist (1890 - 1960)
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  • Pearl S. Buck Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
    Pearl S. Buck
    American novelist (1892 - 1973)
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  • William Cobbett Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.
    William Cobbett
    British journalist (1763 - 1835)
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  • Germaine Greer Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Margaret Oliphant Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to be driven out of your senses with thinking which of two things you ought to do than to do nothing whatever, and be utterly uninteresting to all the world.
    Margaret Oliphant
    British writer, historian (1828 - 1897)
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  • Plutarch Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Sydney Justin Harris Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall.
    Sydney Justin Harris
    American journalist (1917 - 1986)
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  • Aristotle Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Samuel Beckett Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.
    Samuel Beckett
    Irish dramatist and novelist (1906 - 1989)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Marshall Mcluhan Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy.
    Marshall Mcluhan
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
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  • James Baldwin Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • James A. Froude Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.
    James A. Froude
    British Historian (1818 - 1894)
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  • Plato Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Ansel Adams Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Martin Luther King Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Katharine Hepburn Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do. But beautiful women don't need to know about men. It's the men who have to know about beautiful women.
    Katharine Hepburn
    American Actress, Writer (1907 - 2003)
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