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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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When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), The World as I See It.
Then give to the world the best you have. And the best will come back to you.: Madeline Bridges, O Magazine, December 2003
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
I have not yet met with a sorrow that could not be borne, nor with one who's passing did not leave me stronger.: Kathryn L. Nelson, Pemberley Manor, 2006
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The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.: Willa Cather (1873 - 1947)
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I never feel age...If you have creative work, you don't have age or time.: Louise Nevelson (1900 - 1988), 1980
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Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)
I really feel as if the things we create together are not things we devised, but things we discovered, as if, in some sense, they were always there in us, waiting to be revealed, like the figure of Mercury waiting in a rough lump of marble.: Raymond Joseph Teller, Fury Letter written to Brian Brushwood, 10-18-93
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We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.: John W. Gardner (1912 - 2002)
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When I make up my mind to do a thing it stays made up.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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Walking is man's best medicine.: Hippocrates (460 BC - 377 BC)
There's the country of America, which you have to defend, but there's also the idea of America. America is more than just a country, it's an idea. An idea that's supposed to be contagious.: Bono (1960 - ), Oprah Winfrey Show, 2002
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We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.: Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
The United States Congress, like a lot of rich people, lives in two houses.: John Green, Vlogbrothers, Why Does Congress Suck?, 01-01-13
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Our bodies are our gardens to which our wills are gardeners.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
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Under the greenwood tree who loves to lie with me ... Here shall he see no enemy but winter and rough weather.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), As You Like It, Act II, sc. 5
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Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.: Tony Blair (1953 - )