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“When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.”
William Somerset Maugham quotes (English short-story Writer, Novelist and Playwright, 1874-1965)
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“Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too.”
Ninon de Lenclos quotes (French courtesan, Her beauty and wit attracted famous men of the day; wrote La Coquette Vengee (1659). 1620-1705)
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“They afterwards took me to a dancing saloon where I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the piano was printed a notice- 'Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.'”
Oscar Wilde quotes (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)
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“No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.”
Boris Pasternak quotes (Russian poet, 1890-1960)

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“Philosophy is the stray camel of the faithful; take hold of it wherever ye come across it”
Muhammad quotes ( Religious leader, prophet of Islam )
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“An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other human being, might conclude that it is the nature of human beings to grow continually taller and wiser in an indefinite progress towards perfection; and this generalization would be just as well founded as the generalization which evolutionists base upon the previous history of this planet.”
Bertrand Russell quotes (English Logician and Philosopher 1872-1970)
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“I think a lot more decisions are made on serendipity than people think. Things come across their radar screens and they jump at them.”
Jay W. Lorsch quotes

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“Those Romans who perpetrated the rape of the Sabines, for example, did not work themselves up for the deed by screening Debbie Does Dallas, and the monkish types who burned a million or so witches in the Middle Ages had almost certainly not come across Boobs and Buns or related periodicals.”
Barbara Ehrenreich quotes

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“It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed ''Wisdom.'' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: ''Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.''”


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“Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.”
Lewis H. Lapham quotes

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