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Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.: Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930)
I don't know how to have casual conversation. You think you're talking about one thing, and either you are and it's incredibly boring, or you're not because it's subtext and you need a decoder ring.: Sara B. Cooper, House M.D., Love Hurts, 2004
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The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.: Maya Angelou (1928 - )
The only gift is a portion of thyself.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
If you enjoyed making a thing, and you’re proud of the thing you made, that’s enough. Not everyone is going to like it, and that’s okay.: Wil Wheaton, WIL WHATON dot NET, 12-07-13
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I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.: Brian Eno, Wired 1/99, p. 176
You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.: Malcolm X (1925 - 1965)
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There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.: Colette (1873 - 1954), 'Freedom,' 1908
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.: William Saroyan (1908 - 1981)
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May your service of love a beautiful thing; want nothing else, fear nothing else and let love be free to become what love truly is.: Hadewijch of Antwerp
Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.: Henri Matisse (1869 - 1954)
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
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Vigorous writing is concise.: William Strunk Jr., "The Elements of Style", 1919
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An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.: Nicholas Chamfort (1741 - 1794)
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.: Meister Eckhart
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That's the funny thing about havin' a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.: Greg Garcia, Raising Hope, Dead Tooth, 09-28-10
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I had learnt to seek intensity…more of life, a concentrated sense of life.: Nina Berberova, O Magazine, September 2003
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For most folks, no news is good news; for the press, good news is not news.: Gloria Borger