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• To be amused by what you read - that is the great spring of happy quotations.

  Charles Edward Montague

  Happiness, Spring, Dignity

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• The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm or epigram; and the proverbs of nations, which embody the commonsense of nations, have the brisk concussion of the most sparkling wit.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Wise, Men, Light

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Literature and life, lects”, p.43

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• A reflection of my feelings about the space program is found in a quotation from Charles A. Lindbergh's "Autobiography of Values." It reads, "Whether outwardly or inwardly, whether in space or time, the farther we penetrate the unknown, the vaster and more marvelous it becomes."

  Robert Wise

  Reflection, Space, Feelings

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• I have rarely read anything which has interested me more, though I have not read as yet more than a quarter of the book proper. From quotations which I had seen, I had a high notion of Aristotle's merits, but I had not the most remote notion what a wonderful man he was. Linnaeus and Cuvier have been my two gods, though in very different ways, but they were mere schoolboys to old Aristotle.

  Charles Darwin

  Book, Men, Two

  Charles Darwin (2016). “Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: the Evolution”, p.727, VM eBooks

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• Let me just say something that I forgot, I also hoped and this was very true in the beginning - that this would also be a place that people would be able to walk in to the fountain and use it in a nice way of reading and examining the quotations on the blocks.

  Lawrence Halprin

  Block, Nice, Reading

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• In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.

  Arthur Miller

  House, Cameras, Quotation Marks

  "TV's Custom-Tailores 'Salesman'" by Don Shewwy, www.nytimes.com. September 15, 1985.

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• Love is like a lighthouse, a beacon in the dark. When you lose the path that lights your way, you feel that you have died, but I assure you, you have not. You are reaching out for help or you would not have found this page. So red these quotations, allow yourself to feel your pain and cry out your loss and anguish. As you let it go, you will find the strength and courage to put your relationship in perspective and move on.

  Laura Ramirez

  Pain, Moving, Loss

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• The trouble with being a secular humanist is that we don't have a congregation. We don't meet so it's a very flimsy tribe, but there's a wonderful quotation from Nietzsche. Nietzsche said, Only a person of deep faith can afford the luxury of skepticism. Something perfectly is going on. I do not doubt it, but the explanations I hear do not satisfy me.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Luxury, Doubt, Tribes

  "Kurt Vonnegut Judges Modern Society". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. January 23, 2006.

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• Many moons ago dictionaries of quotations may have been less needed than they are today. In those good/bad old days, people walked around with entire poems and all the Shakespearean soliloquies in their heads.

  Joseph Epstein

  Moon, People, May

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• And we are quotation marks, inverted and upside down, clinging to one another at the end of this life sentence. Trapped by lives we did not choose.

  Tahereh Mafi

  Quotation Marks, Upside Down, Ends

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• It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain

  Anna Garlin Spencer

  Men, Errors, Brain

  Anna Garlin Spencer (1908). “Woman's Share in Social Culture”

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• It often happens that the quotations constitute the most valuable part of a book.

  Vicesimus Knox

  Inspirational, Book, Valuable

  Vicesimus Knox (1805). “Winter Evenings: Or Lucubrations on Life and Letters. ...”, p.47

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• I am only too aware that I am open to Rees's Second Law of Quotation: "However sure you are that you have attributed a quotation correctly, an earlier source will be pointed out to you."

  Nigel Rees

  Law, Source

  "Brewer's Famous Quotations" by Nigel Rees, London: Cassell, (p. x), 1994.

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• Well-referenced, with numerous quotations from renowned Egyptologists and classical scholars, Acharya's penetrating research clearly lays out the very ancient pre-Christian basis of modern Christianity. Those who espouse Christianity beware! After digesting the evidence, you will never again view your religion in the same light.

  Robert M. Schoch

  Christian, Light, Views

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• Below are some quotations along these lines. Select a quote for your Gothic Myspace layout or contribute one of your own.

  Laura Ramirez

  Love, Lines, Gothic

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• On the analogy of 'Dictionary Johnson,' we call Fred R. Shapiro, editor of the just-published Yale Book of Quotations (well worth the $50 price), 'Quotationeer Shapiro.' Shapiro does original research, earning his 1,067-page volume a place on the quotation shelf next to Bartlett's and Oxford's.

  William Safire

  Book, Yale, Editors

  "'To - Be' or Not 'To - Be'" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. November 26, 2006.

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• With its shrewd analysis and its knowledgeable reflections on the state of the arts, as well as a rich array of anecdotes and quotations about patronage, Patronizing the Arts will appeal to a broad audience.

  Jonathan Culler

  Art, Reflection, Anecdotes

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• The main objects of all science, the freedom and happiness of man. . . . [are] the sole objects of all legitimate government. A plaque with this quotation, with the first phrase omitted, is in the stairwell of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Liberty, Pedestal

  Letter to General Thaddeus Kosciusko, February 26, 1810.

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• I pray Heaven to bestow the best of Blessings on this House and on all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise Men ever rule under this roof.

  John Adams

  Wise, Honesty, Blessing

  John Adams (1841). “Letters of John Adams: Addressed to His Wife”, p.267

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• Isn't it somewhat remarkable that we can go back a a few hundred years and find no shortage of quotations from our founding fathers warning us against the dangers of democracy, yet today teachers and politicians use the word as if it were an offering of gold.

  Neal Boortz

  Teacher, Father, Offering

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• I was the type who looked at discussions of What Is Truth only with a view toward correcting the manuscript. If you were to quote "I am that I am," for example, I thought that the fundamental problem was where to put the comma, inside the quotation marks or outside.

  Umberto Eco

  Views, Example, Quotation Marks

  Umberto Eco (2007). “Foucault's Pendulum”, p.62, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Quotation confesses inferiority.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inferiority

  Letters and Social Aims "Quotation and Originality" (1876)

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• The photograph is like a quotation, or a maxim or proverb. Each of us mentally stocks hundreds of photographs, subject to instant recall.

  Susan Sontag

  Photograph, Instant, Maxims

  Susan Sontag (2013). “Regarding the Pain of Others”, p.22, Macmillan

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• Quotations are powerful tools. Michel de Montaigne, the father of all essayists, observed, 'I quote others only to better express myself.' Intrepid quotations detective Ralph Keyes helps us to discover the clear truth about exactly what was said and who exactly said it.

  Richard Lederer

  Powerful, Father, Tools

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• While reading writers of great formulatory power — Henry James, Santayana, Proust — I find I can scarcely get through a page without having to stop to record some lapidary sentence. Reading Henry James, for example, I have muttered to myself, "C’mon, Henry, turn down the brilliance a notch, so I can get some reading done." I may be one of a very small number of people who have developed writer’s cramp while reading.

  Joseph Epstein

  Reading, Numbers, People

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