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We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self-denial, anxiety and discouragement.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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You can’t love a crowd the same way you can love a person. And a crowd can’t love you the way a single person can love you. Intimacy doesn’t scale. Not really. Intimacy is a one-on-one phenomenon.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 26. Write from the heart., 08-22-04
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Speech in New York, Nov. 20, 1900
When life seems chaotic, you don't need people giving you easy answers or cheap promises. There might not be any answers to your problems. What you need is a safe place where you can bounce with people who have taken some bad hops of their own.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, August 12, 2003
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So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.: Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804)
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Canterville Ghost, 1882
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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.: Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)
Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.: Michael Pritchard
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Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007)
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Question how much freedom your path affords you. Be utterly ruthless about it. It's your freedom that will get you to where you want to go.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 11, 08-22-04
Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
Nobody will ever win the Battle of the Sexes. There's just too much fraternizing with the enemy.: Henry Kissinger (1923 - )
There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.: Emile Chartier
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A great preservative against angry and mutinous thoughts, and all impatience and quarreling, is to have some great business and interest in your mind, which, like a sponge shall suck up your attention and keep you from brooding over what displeases you.: Joseph Rickaby
Never be haughty to the humble; never be humble to the haughty.: Jefferson Davis (1808 - 1889)
The power of illustrative anecdotes often lies not in how well they present reality, but in how well they reflect the core beliefs of their audience.: David P. Mikkelson, Snopes.com, 04-10-04
This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 03, 2004
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Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007)