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There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger.: Saul Bellow (1915 - 2005), O Magazine, September 2003
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We are advertis'd by our loving friends.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
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Imagination is more important than knowledge...: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.: Krishnamurti, Beginnings of Learning
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Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.: Timothy Leary (1920 - 1996)
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D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.: Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931), Harper's Monthly, 1932
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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.: Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
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For all their strength, men were sometimes like little children.: Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999
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What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.: Hansell B. Duckett
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One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
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When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden
Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.: Robert Bresson
However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.: Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878 - 1969)
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.: Dick Cavett (1936 - )
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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.: James Boswell (1740 - 1795), Life of Samuel Johnson, 1791
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Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
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Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969), speech at Dartmouth College, June 14, 1953
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