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You will never truly know yourself or the strength of your relationships until both have been tested by adversity.: J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
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Our creations MUST be shared to be art, and the easiest way to share our art is to sell it.: Laura Moncur (1969 - ), Merriton: 35 Minutes from Home, 03-07-12
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The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.: Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ), "Technology and the Future" (Clarke's second law)
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.: Hector Berlioz (1803 - 1869)
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The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
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It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.: Enrico Fermi (1901 - 1954)
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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.: E. M. Forster (1879 - 1970)
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.: Margaret Cho, Margaret Cho's weblog, 03-23-06
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Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Essays, First Series: Prudence, 1841
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At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.: Dame Rose Macaulay (1881 - 1958)
When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), (attributed)
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Be not afraid of greatness: some men are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'Twelfth Night'
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Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
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Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.: Muhammad Ali (1942 - ), "More Than a Hero"
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What you will do matters. All you need is to do it.: Judy Grahn, Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds, 1984
Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.: Georges Clemenceau (1841 - 1929)
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For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.: Johnny Carson (1925 - 2005)
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