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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Moon and Sixpence
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We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire...Give us the tools and we will finish the job.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), BBC radio broadcast, Feb 9, 1941
You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.: Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Fish Story, 1994
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The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.: Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993)
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In recent years, we've become enamored with our own past success. Lulled into complacency by the glitter of our own achievements. We've become accustomed to the title of Military Superpower, forgetting the qualities that got us there. We've become accustomed to our economic dominance in the world, forgetting that it wasn't reckless deals and get rich quick schemes that got us where we are, but hard work and smart ideas, quality products and wise investments.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), Arizona State Commencement Speech, 2009
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Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.: Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.: Bessie A. Stanley
Never tell anyone that you're writing a book, going on a diet, exercising, taking a course, or quitting smoking. They'll encourage you to death.: Lynn Johnston (1947 - ), For Better or For Worse, 07-15-06
It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.: William G. McAdoo (1863 - 1941)
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The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.: Paul Valery (1871 - 1945), 1895
The higher the buildings, the lower the morals.: Noel Coward (1899 - 1973)
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I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.: Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962)
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Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.: Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904 - 1991)
It's takin' whatever comes your way, the good AND the bad, that give life flavor. It's all the stuff rolled together that makes life worth livin'.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.: Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004), quoted in Observer, March 29 1981
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With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of these things. Riches and honors acquired by unrighteousness are to me as a floating cloud.: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
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It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, July 7, 2003
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The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)