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- In war there is no substitute for victory.
- General Douglas MacArthur (1880 - 1964)
- It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944)
- It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
- When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.
- Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
- Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.
- Henri Cartier Bresson
- Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- This is part of the essence of motherhood, watching your kid grow into her own person and not being able to do anything about it. Otherwise children would be nothing more than pets.
- Heather Armstrong, Dooce, 11-15-05
- When someone who is known for being comedic does something straight, it' s always 'a big breakthrough' or a 'radical departure.' Why is it no one ever says that if a straight actor does comedy? Are they presuming comedy is easier?
- Carol Burnett (1936 - )
- Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
- C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
- Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
- C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
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