Great Throughts Treasury

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J. B. Priestly, fully John Boynton Priestly

Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.

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Appreciation | Art | Faith | Heart | Life | Life | Meaning | Means | Mind | People | Religion | Appreciation | Art |

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Italian Proverbs

Who serves well and says nothing makes claim enough.

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Meaning | Sound |

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Ivan Oransky

[In medical school] I didn't have a course called ?How to Think Skeptically.?

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Meaning | Respect | Respect |

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J. B. Priestly, fully John Boynton Priestly

If there is one thing left that I would like to do, it's to write something really beautiful. And I could do it, you know. I could still do it.

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Beginning | Evidence | Life | Life | Meaning | Sense | Worry |

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J. B. Priestly, fully John Boynton Priestly

Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.

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Compassion | Intolerance | Meaning | Means | People | Pity | Practice | Religion | Time | World |

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J. B. Priestly, fully John Boynton Priestly

Depending upon shock tactics is easy, whereas writing a good play is difficult. Pubic hair is no substitute for wit.

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Meaning | Noise | Unique | Will | Poem |

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J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.

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