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Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.: Comte de Buffon (1707 - 1788)
I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.: Gerry Spence, 'How to Argue and Win Every Time'
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When I see somebody 'suffering for their art', it's usually a case of them not knowing where that red line is, not knowing where the sovereignty lies.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 15, 08-22-04
I don't have an English accent because this is what English sounds like when spoken properly.: James Carr, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.: Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 - 1966), "Unkempt Thoughts"
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There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.: Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.: Dr. Rob Gilbert
If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.: Lawana Blackwell, The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, 1998
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We are most alive when we're in love.: John Updike (1932 - )
If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
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He wrapped himself in quotations- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.: Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)
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Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.: Elizabeth Aston, The True Darcy Spirit, 2006
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I have a rock garden. Last week three of them died.: Richard Diran
Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.: Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964), Taken Care Of ,1965
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Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.: John Henry Cardinal Newman (1801 - 1890)
I have given two cousins to war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother.: Artemus Ward (1834 - 1867)
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.: Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)
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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.: James Gordon, M.D.
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Never compare your inside with somebody else's outside.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 13, 08-22-04
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.: Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
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