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Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message.
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The Art of the Romance, though warning us that it is providing fictions, opens a door into the Palace of Absurdity, and…
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In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness.
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If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that…
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The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise,…
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The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to be thrilled…
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The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads…
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Every great thinker is someone else's moron.
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When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but a hundred…
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There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.
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American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100oC
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There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale…
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Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.
— Robert Baden-Powell
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If things are not going well with you, begin your effort at correcting the situation by carefully examining the service you are…
— Roger Babson
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How hard you work at correcting your faults reveals your character.
— John Wooden
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If the gentleman is not serious, he will not be respected, and his learning will not be on a firm foundation. He…
— Confucius
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[Science] is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we…
— Carl Sagan
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Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections... science is a ladder... poetry is a winged flight... An artistic masterpiece…
— Victor Hugo
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Scientists are human-they're as biased as any other group. But they do have one great advantage in that science is a self-correcting…
— Unknown Author
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When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
— Woodrow Wilson
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What is easy to read has been difficult to write. The labour of writing and rewriting, correcting and recorrecting, is the due…
— G. M. Trevelyan
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The best way is to read it all every day from the start, correcting as you go along, then go on from…
— Ernest Hemingway
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The teacher's role in discussion is to keep it going along fruitful lines - be moderating, guiding, correcting and arguing like one…
— Mortimer Adler
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The 'environmental crisis' has happened because the human household or economy is in conflict at almost every point with the household of…
— Wendell Berry
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