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If you have something to say, then say it. If not, enjoy the silence while it lasts. The noise will return soon enough. In the meantime, you%uFFFDre better off going out into the big, wide world, having some adventures and refilling your well. Trying to create when you don%uFFFDt feel like it is like making conversation for the sake of making conversation.
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Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 24, 08-22-04
Cabbage: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
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Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.
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Frances Moore Lappe, O Magazine, May 2004
I would rather be right and die than be wrong and kill.
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Holly Lisle, Fire In The Mist, 1992
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.
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Barack Obama (1961 - ), Arizona State Commencement Speech, 2009
A man's looks are measured by the depth of his pockets.
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Elizabeth Aston, Mr. Darcy's Daughters, 2003
Often we can achieve an even better result when we stumble yet are willing to start over, when we don't give up after a mistake, when something doesn't come easily but we throw ourselves into trying, when we're not afraid to appear less than perfectly polished.
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Sharon Salzberg, O Magazine, The Power of Intention, January 2004
Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
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Philip K. Dick (1928 - 1982), What The Dead Men Say, 1964
The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.
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Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), 'Strength to Love,' 1963
Invention is the mother of necessity.
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Thorstein Veblen (1857 - 1929)
One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.
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Nancy Astor (1879 - 1964)
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
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Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
It's about what YOU are going to do with the short time you have left on this earth.
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Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 23, 08-22-04
I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.
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Woody Allen (1935 - )
Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.
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Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946)
I've known what it is to be hungry, but I always went right to a restaurant.
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Ring Lardner (1885 - 1933)
Do not be afraid of defeat. you are never so near victory as when defeated in a good cause
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Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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H. Norman Schwarzkopf (1934 - )
All important persons have about them someone in a subordinate position who has their ear. These dependents are very susceptible to slights, and, when they are not treated as they think they should be, will by well-directed shafts, constantly repeated, poison the minds of their patrons against those who have provoked their animosity. It is well to keep in with them.
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
Deal with the consequences of your actions, 'cause life ain't no video game.
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Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
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Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
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