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As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Zarya, 1994
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Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3
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You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despairâ€“the sense that you can never completely put on the page whatâ€™s in your mind and heart. You can come to the act with your fists clenched and your eyes narrowed, ready to kick ass and take down names. You can come to it because you want a girl to marry you or because you want to change the world. Come to it any way but lightly. Let me say it again: you must not come lightly to the blank page.: Stephen King (1947 - ), On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, 2000
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It’s almost as if the way you imagine my dead self says more about you than it says about either the person I was or the whatever I am now.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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You're dealing with the demon of external validation. You can't beat external validation. You want to know why? Because it feels sooo good.: Barbara Hall, Northern Exposure, Gran Prix, 1994
The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.: Jim Bishop, New York Journal-American, March 14, 1959
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Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.: Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.: Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
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Health is not simply the absence of sickness.: Hannah Green
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People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.: A. J. Liebling (1904 - 1963)
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The best way to get people to like you is not to like them too much.: John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
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All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), 'Strength to Love,' 1963
I don't want to talk as much. It's nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one's heart, like treasures. I don't like to have them laughed at or wondered over.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.: Isabelle Eberhardt
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A friend is a second self.: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
Ruminating about the past is like trying to drive backward to undo a car accident.: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
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The fact is, the old clich%uFFFDs work for us in abstract terms, but they never work out in real life quite the same way. Life is messy; clich%uFFFDs are clean and tidy.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 29, 08-22-04
The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.: Frances Willard (1839 - 1898)
I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.: Ellen Goodman (1941 - )
Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.: Leonard Bernstein (1918 - 1990)
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