Quote #10433
Beyond talent lie all the usual words discipline, love, luck — but, most of...
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If your house is on fire, warm yourself by it.
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A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media,...
Quote #1966
The great omission in American life is solitude. . . that zone of time...
Quote #3938
The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows.
Quote #12231
Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not.
Quote #10356
I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble...
Quote #313
Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
Quote #1978
Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can...
Quote #10196
But each day brings its petty dust Our soon-chok’d souls to fill, And we...