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We all need to have a creative outlet - a window, a space - so we don't lose track of ourselves.: Norman Fischer
Nature abhors a vacuum, but not as much as cats do.: Lee Entrekin
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The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.: Russell Baker (1925 - )
You can see into the future if you have a basic understanding of how people are likely to act.: John Green (1977 - ), An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.: Anais Nin (1903 - 1977), The Diary of Anais Nin, volume 3, 1939-1944
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You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, October 20, 2003
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The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.: Nancy Astor (1879 - 1964)
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I don't like the sound of all those lists he's making - it's like taking too many notes at school; you feel you've achieved something when you haven't.: Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle, 1948
If you neglect to recharge a battery, it dies. And if you run full speed ahead without stopping for water, you lose momentum to finish the race.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, April 2003
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.: Sir Thomas Browne (1605 - 1682), 1642
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.: Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
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Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.: Simeon Strunsky (1879 - 1948), No Mean City (1944)
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They can do all because they think they can.: Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC)
It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.: Simone de Beauvoir
I have seen flowers come in stony places And kind things done by men with ugly faces And the gold cup won by the worst horse at the races, So I trust too.: John Masefield (1878 - 1967)
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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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Friends should always tell you the truth. But please don’t.: Louis C. K., Vanity Fair interview, 2013
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There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
It is always the best policy to speak the truth--unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.: Jerome K. Jerome (1859 - 1927)
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If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.: John Cage (1912 - 1992)
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