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There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.: Sean O'Faolain (1900 - 1991)
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By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.: Sharon Salzberg, O Magazine, The Power of Intention, January 2004
It's not about vein' mad at everything. It's about bein' REALLY mad at the right stuff.: Ice T., Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, 06-13-12
Even writers need relief from words.: Sarah Vowell, O Magazine, March 2009
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What music is more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?: Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "Age and Death"
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), 'Poor Richard's Almanack,' June 1746
He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.: Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751 - 1816)
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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires, seek discipline and find your liberty.: Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986), Dune
The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.: Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 - 1951)
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There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.: Gore Vidal (1925 - )
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Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.: Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)
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We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.: Nick Faldo
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Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.: Minna Thomas Antrim
Perhaps better we not obscure the idea that happiness and misery, kindness and greed, and good works and bad deeds are within the capacities of us all, not merely a select few.: David P. Mikkelson, snopes.com, September 8, 2003
We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us.: George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.: George Best
Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.: Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999
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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), 'Out of My Later Years,' 1950
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