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  • Napoleon What is history but a fable agreed upon?
    ― Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • James T. Mccay What is important is not to be able to read rapidly, but to be able to decide what not to read.
    ― James T. Mccay
    American author
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  • Bill Cosby What is it about grandparents that is so lovely? I'd like to say that grandparents are God's gifts to children. And if they can but see, hear and feel what these people have to give, they can mature at a fast rate.
    ― Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Theodore Roethke What is madness but nobility of soul. At odds with circumstance?
    ― Theodore Roethke
    American poet (1908 - 1963)
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  • Oscar Wilde What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?
    ― Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bill Buford What is New York? A straightforward answer: seven million people crushed onto an island originally settled by the Dutch. But it's more than that. These are seven million who were, mainly, not even born here.
    ― Bill Buford
    American author and journalist
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  • Henry David Thoreau What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one direction or another he strives to live a supernatural life.
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Desiderius Erasmus What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.
    ― Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Walter Savage Landor What is reading, but silent conversation.
    ― Walter Savage Landor
    British poet (1775 - 1864)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?
    ― G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Sir William Osler What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
    ― Sir William Osler
    Canadian Physician (1849 - 1919)
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  • Richard Owen Cambridge What is the worth of any thing,
    But for the happiness 'twill bring?
    Source: Learning 23
    ― Richard Owen Cambridge
    British poet (1717 - 1802)
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  • Robert Frost What is this talked-of mystery of birth but being mounted bareback on the earth?
    ― Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • George Bernard Shaw What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • George Bernard Shaw What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say ''I know'' instead of ''I am learning,'' and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Alfred de Vigny What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete.
    ― Alfred de Vigny
    French poet and writer (1797 - 1863)
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  • Cormac McCarthy What joins men together ... is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
    ― Cormac McCarthy
    American novelist, playwright, short-story writer, and screenwriter (1933 - 2023)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.
    ― Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Charles A. Lindbergh What kind of man would live where there is no daring? I don't believe in taking foolish chances but nothing can be accomplished without taking any chance at all.
    ― Charles A. Lindbergh
    American aviator and inventor
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  • Henry S. Haskins What lies behind us and what lies before us are but tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
    Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940) p. 120
    ― Henry S. Haskins
    American stockbroker and man of letters (1875 - 1957)
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