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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.: John Muir (1838 - 1914), Our National Parks, 1901
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Don't let the bastards grind you down.: General Joseph W. Stilwell (1883 - 1946), Motto
We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), October 26, 1963
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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.: Stephen Nachmanovitch
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Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.: Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)
A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.: Dorothy L. Sayers (1893 - 1957), Lord Peter Wimsey in "Gaudy Night"
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Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.: Mary Tyler Moore (1936 - )
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.: Abbie Hoffman (1936 - 1989)
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Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.: Rita Mae Brown, Starting From Scratch, 1988
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.: James Joyce (1882 - 1941)
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Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.: Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (1893 - 1986), in Irving Good, The Scientist Speculates (1962)
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If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.: Marcus Bridgstocke
Memory feeds imagination.: Amy Tan (1952 - )
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None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.: Ferdinand Foch (1851 - 1929)
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I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.: Katherine Anne Porter (1894 - 1980)
It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
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The thing that I'm always left with is this overwhelming desire for people to be rooted and the only way that they feel rooted is through another person.: John Allen, A network called 'Internet', CBC, 10-08-93
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?: Eleanor H. Porter (1868 - 1920), Pollyanna, 1912
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