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- Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.
- George Lois
- Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904 - 1991)
- If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD)
- Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.
- Rebecca Johnson, in 'Vogue'
- Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
- Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887), Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit, 1887
- Every artist was first an amateur.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Letters and Social Aims: Progress of Culture, 1876
- Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969), speech at Dartmouth College, June 14, 1953
- Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.
- Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972), August 8, 1950
- We need men who can dream of things that never were.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), speech in Dublin, Ireland, June 28, 1963
- Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden: Higher Laws, 1854
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