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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
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Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
You can cover a great deal of country in books.
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Andrew Lang (1844 - 1912)
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
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Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.
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George Sewell
You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
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Malcolm X (1925 - 1965)
There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead.
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Arthur Honegger (1892 - 1955)
It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
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Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
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Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me.
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Simone de Beauvoir
It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.
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Henry Allen
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
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Georg Wilhelm, O Magazine, September 2003
How soon was it that the dead are brought to deity in the eyes of those who in life found them little regard.
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Linda Berdoll, Mr. Darcy Takes A Wife, 2004
It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it.
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Latin Proverb
What we should be asking is not whether we need a big government or small government, but how we can create a smarter and better government.
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Barack Obama (1961 - ), University of Michigan Commencement, 2010
He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.
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Demosthenes (384 BC - 322 BC)
Love is everything it's cracked up to be…It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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Erica Jong, O Magazine, February 2004
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
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Pierre Beaumarchais (1732 - 1799)
Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.
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Sharon Salzberg
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
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Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)
General principles should not be based on exceptional cases.
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Robert J. Sawyer (1960 - ), "Calculating God", 2000
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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