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You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what was in the newspapers that morning... a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be.: Joseph Campbell (1904 - 1987)
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Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.: Peter De Vries
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It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.: J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, 1999
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If there were no God, there would be no Atheists.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.: Booker T. Washington (1856 - 1915)
An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.: Nicholas Chamfort (1741 - 1794)
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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), "Am I An Atheist Or An Agnostic?", 1947
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The best way to get approval is not to need it.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 27, 08-22-04
If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.: Mary Kay Ash
If thou are a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.: Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thine equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure; in the society of thy superiors thou shalt find more profit. To be the best in the company is the way to grow worse.: Francis Quarles (1592 - 1644)
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It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.: Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990)
[Spring is] a true reconstructionist.: Henry Timrod
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Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.: Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980)
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.: Georgia O'Keeffe (1887 - 1986)
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Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.: Thomas Szasz, "The Second Sin"
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.: Henry Kissinger (1923 - )