Rice Krispies happens to be one of my favorite junk foods, just as I regard Michener as superior among junk writers.
- Christopher Lehmann-Haupt - In Art
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We breathe, we think, we conceive of our lives as narratives.
- Christopher Lehmann-Haupt - In Art
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To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.
- Robert Schumann - In Art
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The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
- Walter Lippmann - In Business
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The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
- Walter Lippmann - In Business
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A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.
- Thomas Mann - In Mortality
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The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
- Walter Lippmann - In Science
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Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.
- John von Neumann - In Science
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War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
- Thomas Mann - In War
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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
- Walter Lippmann - In Words to the Wise
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