Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Category Archives: 2358 – Quote Unquote
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A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
~ Mark Twain
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Advice for New Academic Administrators
A necessary precondition for effective decision making is to ensure you get an appropriate amount of sleep.
~ Jasper John MacKay
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It is easier for the prince to make friends of those men who were contented under the former government, and are therefore his enemies, than of those who, being discontented with it, were favourable to him and encouraged him to seize it.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
~ Henry James
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We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera.
~ G. K. Chesterton
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“The Harlem of my books was never meant to be real. I never called it real; I just wanted to take it away from the white man if only in my books.”
~ Chester Himes
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Panic at the thought of doing a thing is a challenge to do it.
― Henry S. Haskins
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
~ Marcel Proust
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The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
~ George Santayana
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