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- Whatever we well understand we express clearly, and words flow with ease.
- Nicholas Boileau
- The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.
- Marcel Duchamp
- Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.
- Whitney M. Young Jr.
- It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
- Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
- Out of life's school of war: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), The Twilight of the Idols (1888).
- It is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself. If, after doing so, one simply knocks out all the central inferences and presents one's audience with the starting-point and the conclusion, one may produce a startling, though perhaps a meretricious, effect.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), Sherlock Holmes in "The Dancing Men"
- Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and blows in a fire.
- De La Rochefoucauld.
- Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.
- Richard Bach
- Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
- Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
- A thousand cups of wine do not suffice when true friends meet, but half a sentence is too much when there is no meeting of minds.
- Chinese proverb
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