Behind every man’s external life, which he leads in company, there is another which he leads alone, and which he carries with him apart.
~ Walter Bagehot
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Category Archives: 1259 – Quote Unquote
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Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wave-length of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
~ Iris Murdoch
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Not only the brave get killed, but the brave have a better chance of it.
~ John Steinbeck
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You have to think carefully in advance about what you’re making and how you will make it, because for both architecture and industrial design, the cost of changing things afterward is much higher than the cost of better preparation.
~ Dieter Rams
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Vietnam was worse than immoral — it was a mistake.
~ Dean Acheson
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It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses. Poets are the policemen of language; they are always arresting those old reprobates the words.
~ William Butler Yeats
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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality.
~ T.S. Eliot
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The perfect university provides sex for students, sports for alumni, and parking for faculty.
~ Clark Kerr
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To live effectively is to live with adequate information.
~ Norbert Wiener
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I don’t know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn’t make you happy.
~ J.D. Salinger
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