Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Kamala Harris’s words seem focus-grouped to please every imaginable constituency. The trouble is, at exactly the moment when communications staffers are satisfied they have pleased everybody, they have in fact left everybody frightened that the candidate is confused and hesitant. Strong leaders get in front of public opinion. Strong leaders make choices and accept consequences.
~ David Frum via The Atlantic
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Hemingway hated me. I sold 200 million books, and he didn’t. Of course most of mine sold for 25 cents, but still, you look at all this stuff with a grain of salt.
~ Mickey Spillane
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Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
~ George Santayana
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There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem.
~ Eric Hoffer
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Every amateur harbors the fantasy that his work is only waiting to be discovered; a second fantasy-that the established contemporary artists must also be frauds- is a necessary corollary.
~ Janet Malcolm
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America’s old republic was born of rebellion against Britain’s more ancient monarchy. Yet, by strange fate, the passage of time has only joined America and Britain more closely together in war and peace.
~ David Frum via The Atlantic
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
~ Henry James
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Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thoughts left unsaid are never wasted.
~ Henry S. Haskins
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