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  • Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.
  • It is wrong to be harsh with the New York critics, unless one admits in the same breath that it is a condition of their existence that they should write entertainingly about something which is rarely worth writing about at all.
  • Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
  • Men often treat others worse than they treat themselves, but they rarely treat anyone better. It is the height of folly to expect consideration and decency from a person who mistreats himself.
  • Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.
  • Politics is too often regarded as a poor relation, inherently dependent and subsidiary; it is rarely praised as something with a life and character of its own.
  • A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.
  • Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind's desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
  • As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.
  • The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Douglas Adams Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Albert Ellis I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs.
    Albert Ellis
    American psychologist (1913 - 2007)
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  • Voltaire We are rarely proud when we are alone.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • C. S. Forester A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.
    C. S. Forester
    English novelist (1899 - 1966)
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  • Jawaharlal Nehru A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.
    inaugurele rede 14-8-1947
    Jawaharlal Nehru
    Indian nationalist and statesman (1889 - 1964)
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  • Marcel Proust A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Francesco Guicciardini Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.
    Francesco Guicciardini
    Italian politician, soldier and historian (1483 - 1540)
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  • Max Planck An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents. What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out, and that the growing generation is familiarized with the ideas from the beginning.
    Max Planck
    German physicist (1858 - 1947)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Brad Feld As a company grows from 25 to 50 to 100 to 200 to 500 to 1000 people, the characteristics of who is the very best talent in leadership roles will change. It's rarely the case that your leadership team at 1000 people is the same leadership team you had a 25 people.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Boris Pasternak As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Sidonie Gabrielle Colette As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.
    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
    French writer (1873 - 1954)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Robert M. Lindner Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.
    Robert M. Lindner
    American author and psychologist (1914 - 1956)
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  • Anatoly Karpov Blunders rarely travel alone.
    Anatoly Karpov
    Russian chess grandmaster (1951 - 1951)
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  • Noam Chomsky Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely if ever do they forgive them.
    A Woman of No Importance (1893)
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Woody Allen Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley Faith may be relied upon to produce sustained action and, more rarely, sustained contemplation.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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