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There's nothing sooner dry than women's tears.: John Webster (1580 - 1625), The White Devil (1612)
Curiosity is the key to creativity.: Akio Morita (1921 - ), Made in Japan (1986)
No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.: John Donne (1572 - 1631), Meditation XVII
An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case; God has written all the books.: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902), The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912)
The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Natural History of Intellect (1893)
He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool.: Albert Camus (1913 - 1960), The Rebel (1951)
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.: Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922), Les Plaisirs et les Jours (1896)
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Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.: William Blake (1757 - 1827), The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (c. 1790-1793)
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There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases; it is the easiest thing of all to deceive one’s self.: Demosthenes (384 BC - 322 BC), Olynthiac
I cannot forgive my friends for dying; I do not find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.: Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "Age and Death"

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