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Ashley Montagu
Because women live creatively, they rarely experience the need to depict or write about that which to them is a primary experience and which men know only at a second remove. Women create naturally, men create artificially.
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A. J. Liebling
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.
A. J. Liebling
The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.
A. J. Nock
The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests.
A. J. Toynbee
Religion holds the solution to all problems of human relationship, whether they are between parents and children or nation and nation. Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.
A. J. Toynbee
As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is up to us.
A. L. Kitselman
The words 'I am...' are potent words be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you.
A. Lawrence Lowell
Pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way.
A. Lawrence Lowell
Pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way.
A. M. Rosenthal
It was an interesting experience being metropolitan editor of the Times , in precisely the same way as being simmered in a saucepan for a few years is terribly interesting.
A. M. Rosenthal
It has been our policy not to use obscenities in the paper. It's a harmless little eccentricity of ours.
A. M. Rosenthal
If you don't have a sensation of apprehension when you set out to find a story and a swagger when you sit down to write it, you are in the wrong business.
A. Mark Wells
The Christian does not consider death to be the end of his life, but the end of his troubles.
A. N. Wilson
In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity-or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity-by being opinionated rather than by being learned.
A. R. Orage
The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything until we can be impartial about our own organism.
A. S. Neill
I answered that one learns to live, not by hearing of other lives, but by living for words are infinitely less important than acts.
A. S. Neill, Summe
Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest thing that can happen to a child.
A. S. Neill, Summe
The difficult child is the child who is unhappy. He is at war with himself; and in consequence, he is at war with the world.
A. W. Tozer
The widest thing in the universe is not space, it is the potential capacity of the human heart.
A. W. Tozer
Plain horse sense ought to tell us that anything that makes no change in the man who professes it makes no difference to God, either.
A. Whitney Brown
Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
A. Whitney Brown
I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants.
A. Whitney Griswol
Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.
A. Whitney Griswol
Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam.
A.E. Houseman
When I was one-and-twenty, I heard a wise man say, Give pounds and crowns and guineas, But not your heart away." Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free." But I was one-and-twenty, No use to talk to me.
Aaron Burr
Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.
Aaron Burr
Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.
Aaron Copland
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
Aaron Copland
The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is' My answer to that would be, 'No.'
Aaron Copland
Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self- consciousness.
Aaron Hill
Oh, treacherous night thou lendest thy ready veil to every treason, and teeming mischief's beneath thy shade.
Aaron Levenstein
Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Machado
The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
Aaron McGruder
When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.
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