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No important institution is ever merely what the law makes it. It accumulates about...
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Act as if it were impossible to fail.
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Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune....
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I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike-and I don’t...
Quote #12979
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
Quote #19235
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
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If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at...
Quote #25660
The Social Sciences are good at accounting for disasters once they have taken place.
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One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of attention, and...
Quote #21350
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from...