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There's no correlation between creativity and equipment ownership. None. Zilch. Nada. Actually, as the artist gets more into his thing, and as he gets more successful, his number of tools tends to go down. He knows what works for him. Expending mental energy on stuff wastes time.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 10, 08-22-04
When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.: Pierre Corneille (1606 - 1684)
One picture is worth a thousand words.: Fred R. Barnard
If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.: Anonymous, often attributed to Dan Quayle
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Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.: Anthony Trollope (1815 - 1882)
Death likes it when you play hard to get.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 09-20-12
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Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.: Seth Godin, Seth Godin's Blog, 07-28-06
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The only place where success comes before work is a dictionary.: Vidal Sassoon
You never lose a dream. It just incubates as a hobby.: Larry Page, University of Michigan Commencement Address, 2009
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There is nothing like a newborn baby to renew your spirit - and to buttress your resolve to make the world a better place.: Virginia Kelley
Women and men have to fight together to change society - and both will benefit... Partnership, not dependence, is the real romance in marriage.: Muriel Fox
Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she meets and then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again.: Rick Polito, Marin Independent Journal's TV listing for "The Wizard of Oz"
It is very difficult to know people and I don't think one can ever really know any but one's own countrymen. For men and women are not only themselves; they are also the region in which they are born, the city apartment or the farm in which they learnt to walk, the games they played as children, the old wives' tales they overheard, the food they ate, the schools they attended, the sports they followed, the poets they read, and the God they believed in. It is all these things that have made them what they are, and these are the things that you can't come to know by hearsay, you can only know them if you have lived them.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894), The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858
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When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.: P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
I'm not going to quit. Why should I quit? This country is worth fighting for.: Hillary Rodham Clinton (1948 - ), Ellen DeGeneres interview, 04-07-08
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To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882), Hyperion, 1839
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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.: Elizabeth Bowen (1899 - 1973)
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What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969), speech to the Republican National Committee, January 31, 1958
In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time.: Edward P. Tryon