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Part of understanding the creative urge is understanding that it's primal. Wanting to change the world is not a noble calling, it's a primal calling.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 17. Merit can be bought. Passion can't. , 08-22-04
Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.: R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983)
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Truly successful decision making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.: Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, 2005
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No matter how far you travel or how much you run from it, can you ever really escape your past?: Becky Hartman Edwards and Michael Patrick King, Sex and the City, Escape from New York, 2000
Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.: Robert J. Sawyer (1960 - ), "Calculating God", 2000
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.: Vernon Howard
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
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The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.: Henry S. Haskins
If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.: Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832), Lacon, 1825
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Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.: Thomas a Kempis (1380 - 1471)
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The only place where success comes before work is a dictionary.: Vidal Sassoon
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), The Conduct of Life, 'Fate,' 1860
Walking is also an ambulation of mind.: Gretel Ehrlich
That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.: Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
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If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.: Carl Schurz (1829 - 1906)
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There is always so much talk about the sins of the fathers, but it is the sins of the mothers that are the most difficult to avoid repeating.: Melanie Benjamin, Alice I Have Been, 2010
It's better to do nothing with your money than something you don't understand.: Suze Orman, O Magazine, February 2003