Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes
Of the three prerequisites of genius; the first is soul; the second is soul; and the third is soul.
Edwin Percy Whipple
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I have to be careful what I eat before going onstage, to avoid an upset stomach.
Samantha Bond
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The greatest merit of the critical spirit is that it tends to cure fanaticism, and it is logical enough that in our own fanatical times the critical spirit should tend to disappear.
Gabriel Marcel
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People who don't know anything tend to make up fake rules, the real rules being considerably more difficult to learn.
Aaron Sorkin
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Machiavelli says that if as a ruler you accept that your every action must pass moral scrutiny, you will without fail be defeated by an opponent who submits to no such moral test. To hold on to power, you have not only to master the crafts of deception and treachery but to be prepared to use them where necessary.
J. M. Coetzee
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There is, of course, provision for consultation of the record by the usual scheme of indexing. If the user wishes to consult a certain book, he taps its code on the keyboard, and the title page of the book promptly appears before him, projected onto one of his viewing positions.
Vannevar Bush
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Poems get to the point where they are stronger than you are. They come up from some other depth and they find a place on the page. You can never find that depth again, that same kind of authority and voice. I might feel I would like to change something about them, but they’re still stronger than I am and I cannot.
Ted Hughes
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Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Weapons are ominous tools. They are not the noble ruler's tools. He only uses them when he can't avoid it.
Lao Tzu
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Thus the good christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make false prophecies, however much they may in fact speak the truth; lest, being in league with the devil, they may deceive errant souls into making common cause.
Saint Augustine
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...Haller's sickness of the soul, as I now know, is not the eccentricity of a single individual, but the sickness of the times themselves, the neurosis of that generation to which Haller belongs, a sickness, it seems, that by no means attacks the weak and worthless only but, rather, precisely those who are strongest in spirit and richest in gifts.
Hermann Hesse
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Of the three prerequisites of genius; the first is soul; the second is soul; and the third is soul.
Edwin Percy Whipple
