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I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things.: Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
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We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680), Maximes (1678)
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Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.: Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904 - 1991)
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
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Seek simplicity, and distrust it.: Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
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The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.: Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616)
Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?: James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.: Stephen Ambrose (1936 - 2002), in Fast Company
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.: Diogenes the Cynic (412 BC - 323 BC)