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- If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.
- J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I am then asked if I know of any artists who pulled that off. I reply, 'The Beatles did'.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Timequake, 1997
- When you're part of a team, you stand up for your teammates. Your loyalty is to them. You protect them through good and bad, because they'd do the same for you.
- Yogi Berra (1925 - ), "When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It" -- Ch. 3
- Times of general calamity and confusion create great minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms.
- Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
- It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.
- George Harrison (1943 - 2001)
- The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nation’s greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested, for they determine whether we use power or power uses us.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Amherst College, Oct 26, 1963 - Source JFK Library, Boston, Mass.
- I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; that is the reason why I compose.
- Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
- When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others. It is much more nearly certain that we are assembled here tonight than it is that this or that political party is in the right. Certainly there are degrees of certainty, and one should be very careful to emphasize that fact, because otherwise one is landed in an utter skepticism, and complete skepticism would, of course, be totally barren and completely useless.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), "Am I An Atheist Or An Agnostic?", 1947
- Scorching my seared heart with a pain, not hell shall make me fear again.
- Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), Tamerlane, Part II
- It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior.
- Anne Bronte (1820 - 1849), Agnes Grey
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