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A people may become great through many means, but there is only one measure by which its greatness is recognized and acknowledged. The final measure… — James Weldon Johnson
Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic. — Roy Blount, Jr.
Man is certainly not creative, but his creativity should not be concerned with God. His creativity should be concerned with making a better world, a… — Rajneesh
The disobedient child is continuously condemned. The obedient child is, on the other hand, continuously praised. But have you heard of any obedient child having… — Rajneesh
According to Muslim teachings, God first revealed His word in the Holy Qur'an to the prophet, Muhammad, during the month of Ramadan. That word has… — George W. Bush
Literature is an inquiry into the deepest yearnings of the human spirit. — Ernest L. Boyer
Two of my three siblings are older, so I suppose I learned from them and became a very avid reader at a young age, which… — Julia Roberts
I did toy with the idea of doing a cook-book . . . The recipes were to be the routine ones: how to make dry… — Groucho Marx
Pornography is literature designed to be read with one hand. — Unknown Author
This is the sorcery of literature. We are healed by our stories. — Terry Tempest Williams
Scientific practice is above all a story-telling practice. ... Biology is inherently historical, and its form of discourse is inherently narrative. ... Biology as a… — Donna J. Haraway
Some years ago John Kenneth Galbraith wrote in an essay on his efforts at writing a history of economics: 'As one approaches the present, one… — Abraham Pais
[Science] is the literature of God written on the stars-the trees-the rocks-and more important because [of] its marked utilitarian character. — James A. Garfield
Do not expect to be hailed as a hero when you make your great discovery. More likely you will be a ratbag-maybe failed by your… — Samuel Warren Carey
In my first publication I might have claimed that I had come to the conclusion, as a result of serious study of the literature and… — Alexander Fleming
Jesus is a mythical figure in the tradition of pagan mythology and almost nothing in all of ancient literature would lead one to believe otherwise.… — Dennis McKinsey
On winning Literature Nobel Prize: I was actually in the street. Yes, I was in the street. It was my daughter who notified me. — Patrick Modiano
The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility! — Oscar Wilde
I will say little of the importance of a good education; nor will I stop to prove that the current one is bad. Countless others… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our devotion to… — George Ripley
The Muslim religion is so unreformed since it was created that nowhere in the Muslim world has there been any real advance in science, or… — Norman Tebbit
Dostoyevsky wrote of the unconscious as if it were conscious; that is in reality the reason why his characters seem 'pathological', while they are only… — Edwin Muir
A louse in the locks of literature. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Critics are those who have failed in literature and art. — Benjamin Disraeli
Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only… — Joseph Joubert

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