Ariel Durant Quotes
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I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
Ralph Ellison
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A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
Samuel Johnson
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I wish I could fill every young man who reads these pages with an utter dread and horror of poverty. I wish I could make you so feel its shame, its constraint, its bitterness that you would make vows against it.
Orison Swett Marden
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When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.
Samuel Lover
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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
Samuel Butler
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Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
Samuel Goldwyn
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Never try to reason with a man who can see the blade swinging for his head.
Algis Budrys
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When we moved to England in 1986, I was ten years old and I didn't know anything about punk or hip hop. The only words I knew in English were 'dance' and 'Michael Jackson.' We got put in a flat in Mitchum, and the council gave us second hand furniture, second hand clothes and a second hand radio that I took to bed with me every night.
M.I.A.
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Getting to the playoffs is more important than winning an award.
Corey Perry
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When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.
Gabrielle Zevin
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Yes, America must do the right thing, but to provide moral leadership, America must do it in the right way, too.
David Cameron
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No man who is in a hurry is quite civilised.
Ariel Durant