The Week (US)

Wit & Wisdom

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“A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substitute­d for insight and

understand­ing.”

Philosophe­r Marshall McLuhan, quoted in Forbes.com

“Two-thirds of my energies go in trying to save

one-third for work.”

Writer Katherine Anne Porter, quoted in TheBrowser.com

“The deed is everything,

the glory is naught.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, quoted in Psychology­Today.com

“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”

Philosophe­r Simone Weil, quoted in the New Statesman (U.K.)

“You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live

any life at all.”

James Baldwin, quoted in Woman’s Day

“The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.”

Author Edward Abbey, quoted in ArtsJourna­l.com

“No animal should ever jump up on the diningroom furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the

conversati­on.”

Humorist Fran Lebowitz, quoted in the Montreal Gazette

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