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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.: Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
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You can cover a great deal of country in books.: Andrew Lang (1844 - 1912)
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Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.: George Sewell
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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.: Malcolm X (1925 - 1965)
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There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead.: 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.: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
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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.: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me.: Simone de Beauvoir
It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.: Henry Allen
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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.: Georg Wilhelm, O Magazine, September 2003
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How soon was it that the dead are brought to deity in the eyes of those who in life found them little regard.: Linda Berdoll, Mr. Darcy Takes A Wife, 2004
It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it.: Latin Proverb
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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.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), University of Michigan Commencement, 2010
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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.: Demosthenes (384 BC - 322 BC)
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Love is everything it's cracked up to be…It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.: Erica Jong, O Magazine, February 2004
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It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.: Pierre Beaumarchais (1732 - 1799)
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Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.: Sharon Salzberg
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)
General principles should not be based on exceptional cases.: Robert J. Sawyer (1960 - ), "Calculating God", 2000