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 Self Doubt quotes   Fanaticism quotes 
Suggest Revision: Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.
 
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 Funny quotes   Teacher quotes 
Suggest Revision: One can always tell it's summer when one sees school teachers hanging about the streets idly, looking like cannibals during a shortage of missionaries.
 
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 Reading quotes 
Suggest Revision: There are times when I think that the reading I have done in the past has had no effect except to cloud my mind and make me indecisive
 
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 Achievement quotes   Students quotes 
Suggest Revision: Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time.
 
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 Books quotes   Maturity quotes   Youth quotes 
Suggest Revision: A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
 
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 Literature quotes   Writers quotes   Criticism quotes 
Suggest Revision: Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself.
 
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 Teenage quotes   Youth quotes 
Suggest Revision: The young are often accused of exaggerating their troubles; they do so, very often, in the hope of making some impression upon the inertia and the immovability of the selfish old.
 
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 Teenage quotes   Youth quotes 
Suggest Revision: The young are often accused of exaggerating their troubles; they do so, very often, in the hope of making some impression upon the inertia and the immovability of the selfish old.
 
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 Politicians quotes 
Suggest Revision: The average politician goes through a sentence like a man exploring a disused mine shaft-blind, groping, timorous and in imminent danger of cracking his shins on a subordinate clause or a nasty bit of subjunctive.
 
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 Life quotes   Pessimism quotes 
Suggest Revision: Pessimism is a very easy way out when you're considering what life really is, because pessimism is a short view of life - If you take a long view, I do not see how you can be pessimistic about the future of man or the future of the world
 
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