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James Joyce Novelist, Poet
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"One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot."

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Jerry Lewis Comedian, Actor, Singer
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"You may catch more flies with honey than vinegar, but you'll get them to work harder if you use a flyswatter."

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Denis Diderot Philosopher, Writer
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"Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs."

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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
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"This is how it always is when I finish a poem. A great silence overcomes me and I wonder why I ever thought to use language."

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Marcus Aurelius Philosopher, Emperor
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"The inner master, when confronted with an obstacle, uses it as fuel, like a fire which consumes things that are thrown into it. A small lamp would be snuffed out, but a big fire will engulf what is thrown at it and burn hotter; it consumes the obstacle and uses it to reach a higher level."

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Plotinus Philosopher
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"We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing...a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to use."

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Wyndham Lewis Artist and Writer
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"The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no standard of value whatever is intact."

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Sigmund Freud Neurologist, Psychoanalyst
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"The Irish are the one race for which psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever... because they already live in a dream world."

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Gerald Gardner Wiccan Author
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"Witchcraft is, and was, not... for everyone. Unless you have an attraction to the occult, a sense of wonder, a feeling that you can slip for a few minutes out of the world into the world of faery, it is of no use to you."

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Kenneth Burke Philosopher
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"Rhetoric is rooted in an essential function of language itself, a function that is wholly realistic and continually born anew: the use of language as a symbolic means of inducing cooperation in beings that by nature respond to symbols."

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Mark Twain Writer, Humorist
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"I don't see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary way of spelling words. We might as well make all clothes alike and cook all dishes alike. Sameness is tiresome; variety is pleasing."

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Amy Lowell Poet
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"Polyphonic prose is a kind of free verse, except that it is still freer. Polyphonic makes full use of cadence, rime, alliteration, assonance."

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