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An expert is...

An expert is...

An expert is the one who predicts the job will take the longest and cost the most.

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For me words...

For me words...

For me words are a form of action, capable of influencing change. Their articulation represents a complete, live...

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Talent is only...

Talent is only...

Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for...

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Barbara Bush: Believe in something...

Barbara Bush: Believe in something...

Believe in something larger than yourself.

Source: Speech, 1990.
-- Barbara...

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Why, that dog...

Why, that dog...

Why, that dog is practically a Phi Beta Kappa. She can sit up and beg, and she can give her paw -- I don't say she...

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Robert Motherwell: The public's appetite...

Robert Motherwell: The public's appetite...

The public's appetite for famous people is a mouth as big as a mountain.

Source: In...

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Ann (and Jane) Taylor: Twinkle, twinkle, little...

Ann (and Jane) Taylor: Twinkle, twinkle, little...

Twinkle, twinkle, little star
How I wonder what you are,
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the...

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After an instrument...

After an instrument...

After an instrument has been assembled, extra components will be found on the work bench.

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Arthur Miller: When any creativity...

Arthur Miller: When any creativity...

When any creativity becomes useful, it is sucked into the vortex of commercialism, and when a thing becomes...

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Ann (and Jane) Taylor: One ugly trick...

Ann (and Jane) Taylor: One ugly trick...

One ugly trick has often spoiled
The sweetest and the best;
Matilda, though a pleasant child,
One ugly trick...

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Bernice Fitz-Gibbon: Creativeness often consists...

Bernice Fitz-Gibbon: Creativeness often consists...

Creativeness often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were...

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Aesop: We should look...

Aesop: We should look...

We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.

Source: In The...

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Gaston Bachelard: So, like a...

Gaston Bachelard: So, like a...

So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.

Source:...

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Grace Speare: Think and feel...

Grace Speare: Think and feel...

Think and feel yourself there! To achieve any aim in life, you need to project the end-result. Think of the elation,...

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Abigail Adams: [A]rbitrary power is...

Abigail Adams: [A]rbitrary power is...

[A]rbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken . ....

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Raoul Vaneigem: In the kingdom...

Raoul Vaneigem: In the kingdom...

In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in...

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The fate of...

The fate of...

The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.

Source: The Belle...

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Iris Murdoch: Writing is like...

Iris Murdoch: Writing is like...

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's...

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Ethel Percy Andrus: It is only...

Ethel Percy Andrus: It is only...

It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.

Source: In The...

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Samuel Smiles: Man cannot aspire...

Samuel Smiles: Man cannot aspire...

Man cannot aspire if he looks down; if he rises, he must look up.

Source: In The...

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