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In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.: Johann von Neumann (1903 - 1957)
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Resistance is never the agent of change. You have to embrace the actions that are going to get you closer to your goal.: Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
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No man is an Island, intire of itselfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine...: John Donne (1572 - 1631), Devotions XVII
What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.: Albert Pine
A cucumber should be well-sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned.: Brooke McEldowney, Pibgorn commentary, 03-31-05
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When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
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If you really want to do something, you do it. You don't save it for a sound bite.: Liz Friedman, House M.D., Hunting, 2005
Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew.: Saint Francis de Sales (1567 - 1622)
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If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
I'm the world's least happy atheist. I miss having religious faith, but trying to have it seems like trying to be in love with someone that you're not in love with.: Lisa Williams, Learning the Lessons of Nixon, 03-29-08
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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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Oil prices have fallen lately. We include this news for the benefit of gas stations, which otherwise wouldn't learn of it for six months.: Bill Tammeus, in Toronto's National Newspaper, 1991
It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.: Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.: Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
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It is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.: J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
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A little drama wins more friends than boring.: Scott Westerfeld, Midnighters: The Secret Hour, 2004
The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
You can't choose the ways in which you'll be tested.: Robert J. Sawyer (1960 - ), "Calculating God", 2000