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An administration, like a machine, does not create. It carries on.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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One of the main reasons why the sciences are so poor is that they imagine they are so rich. It isn't their job to throw open the door to infinite wisdom but to put a limit to infinite error.
Galileo speaking
Bertolt Brecht
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I feel that the longest and worst punishment should be reserved for those who slandered God by inventing Hell.
Isaac Asimov
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We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.
Louis Aragon
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The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
Milan Kundera
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It is amazing how nice people are to you when they know you are going away.
Michael Arlen
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Not to write, for many of us, is to die. We must take ares each and every day, perhaps knowing that the battle cannot be entirely won, but fight we must, if only a gentle bout. The smallest effort to win means, at the end of each day, a sort of victory.
Ray Bradbury
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When debts are not paid because they cannot be paid, the best thing to do is not talk about them, and shuffle the cards again.
Camilo José Cela
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I want you to back yourself into a corner. Give yourself no choice but to succeed. Let the consequences of failure become so dire and so unthinkable that you'll have no choice but to do whatever it takes to succeed.
Jordan Belfort
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Shatter the icons of slavery and fear.
Replace
the leer
of the minstrel's burnt-cork face
with a proud, serene
and classic bronze of Benin.
Dudley Randall
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The candid camera is the greatest liar in the photographic family.... It is anarchic, naïve, and superficial.
Lincoln Kirstein
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Enlightenment is any experience of expanding our consciousness beyond its present limits.
Thaddeus Golas
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There's no app for a bourbon buzz on a warm day in a cool, dark bar. The world will always want a drink.
Gillian Flynn
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If you train yourself to listen to your intuition and to follow its bidding, you will greatly increase your percentage of success in life.
Harold Sherman
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If, as you teach, the universe has no beginning and no end, why should we?
Janet Morris
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How do you show up for your relationships? Are you healthy or crippled? Are you prepared or needy? Are you ready to give or too tired to talk?
Gary Smalley
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We are all of us invented. We are all of us cobbled together from cartilage and dust. Few of us know with certainty the name of our maker. But I do... Bram Stoker.
Steven Dietz
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Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.
Stuart Cloete
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The great human problem of evil stems from the illusion of separateness. Whenever this illusion is overcome, we behave lovingly to one another.
Barbara Marx Hubbard
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People die... so love them every day.
Beauty fades... so look before it's gone.
Love changes... but not the love you give.
And if you love, you'll never be alone.
L. J. Smith (author)
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We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies.
Roderick Thorp
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You say you do not know what God's will is, but I'll tell you what it is. Above all it is that you know Christ and then that your neighbors hear about Christ. That is His will. So often we sit around twiddling our thumbs, dreaming about God's will in some distant future when we are not even willing to stand up on our own two feet, walk down the street, and do God's will right now.
John F. MacArthur
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Finished ought to be an F-word for all of us. We are all works in progress. Each day presents an opportunity to learn more, do more, be more, grow more in our lives and careers.
Reid Hoffman
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We can't continue to be like this. Who am I? Your fiancée or your concubine?
Ha Jin
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Sacrifice is at the heart of repentance. Without deeds, your apology is worthless.
Bryan Davis (author)
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