Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer - In Art
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I don't invent characters because the Almightly has already invented millions. Just like experts at fingerprints do not create fingerprints but learn how to read them.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer - In Art
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It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
- Robert Green Ingersoll - In Education
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There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, eat a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets.
- Robert Green Ingersoll - In Equality
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It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
- Henry A. Kissinger - In History
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For it is a land of illusion, a place in the mind, a shimmering mirage of riches and mystery and death. These illusions have distorted its landscape and contorted its history.
- Richard E. Lingenfelter - In History
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I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.
- J. D. Salinger - In Love
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Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.
- Robert Green Ingersoll - In Nature
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I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer - In Nature
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A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
- William R. Inge - In Patriotism
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Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
- Henry A. Kissinger - In Politics
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If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.
- Robert Green Ingersoll - In Religion
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Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer - In Religion
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Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.
- Arthur M. Schlesinger - In Science
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No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.
- Henry A. Kissinger - In War
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It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
- William R. Inge - In Words to the Wise
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