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8984 quotesOur American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
Literature
Sinclair Lewis
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
Courage
Sinclair Lewis
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What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.
Love
Sinclair Lewis
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It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite.
Manners
Wyndham Lewis
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Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.
Revolutions and Revolutionaries
Wyndham Lewis
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His shortcoming is his long staying.
Bores and Boredom
Lewis L. Lewisohn
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A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.
Books - Reading
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.
Literature
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.
Praise
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species.
Teachers and Teaching
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Before we blame we should first see whether we cannot excuse.
Liberals
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
Genius
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.
Self-improvement
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Ideas too are a life and a world.
Ideas
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.
Publishing and Publishers
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.
Indifference
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.
Heaven
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Some theories are good for nothing except to be argued about.
Theory
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.
Things and Little Things
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.
Propaganda
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.
Worry
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.
Imitation
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
Virtue
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
Wisdom
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.
Prophecy
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun