Susan Sontag
Essayist, Critic, Activist
"Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism"
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Quotations
39 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Daniel Kahneman
Psychologist, Nobel Laureate
"You can always find an evolutionary quotation for anything. But the question is whether it's functional, which is not the same as being evolutionary."
Michel de Montaigne
Philosopher, Writer
"I quote others in order to better express myself."
Blake Mycoskie
Entrepreneur
"I surround myself with inspirational quotations."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
"Quotation confesses inferiority."
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"[Proverbs] are short sayings made out of long experience."
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"Quotation is a good thing, there is a community of thought in it."
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"My skull is crammed with quotations."
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"We are ruled by quotations."
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"Quotation marks quotato marks! Bah!"
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"Quotations are best brought in to confirm some opinion controverted."
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"I'd lived by quotations, practically all my life."
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