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Isaac Watts: Do not expect...

Isaac Watts: Do not expect...

Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things wherein we mortals...

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Theatre director: a...

Theatre director: a...

Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot...

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Education's purpose is...

Education's purpose is...

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Source: In Forbes...

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Breaking the ice...

Breaking the ice...

Breaking the ice in the pitcher seems to be a feature of the early lives of all great men.

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Romare Howard Bearden: I want to...

Romare Howard Bearden: I want to...

I want to see how life can triumph.

Source: In Black Pearls., by Eric V. Copage,...

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Bruce Barton: Nothing splendid has...

Bruce Barton: Nothing splendid has...

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to...

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Marsha Norman: There are things...

Marsha Norman: There are things...

There are things that music can do that language could never do, that painting could never do, or sculpture. Music is...

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Maggie Kuhn: Power should not...

Maggie Kuhn: Power should not...

Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so...

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Serve the dinner...

Serve the dinner...

Serve the dinner backward, do anything but for goodness sake, do something weird.

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Marsha Norman: Success is always...

Marsha Norman: Success is always...

Success is always something that you have to recover from.

Source: Interviews with...

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Lemuel B Haynes: The serpent, before...

Lemuel B Haynes: The serpent, before...

The serpent, before he set up preaching universal salvation, was a cunning, beautiful, and happy creature; but now his...

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Marie Curie: One never notices...

Marie Curie: One never notices...

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done . . .

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Rainer M Rilke: If your daily...

Rainer M Rilke: If your daily...

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call...

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Willie Mays: I don't compare...

Willie Mays: I don't compare...

I don't compare 'em, I just catch 'em.

Source: On his best plays.
-- Willie...

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Georges Seurat: Some say they...

Georges Seurat: Some say they...

Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.

Source: In Seurat and...

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Isaac Watts: At books, or...

Isaac Watts: At books, or...

At books, or work, or healthy play,
Let all my years be passed;
That I may give for every day
A good account...

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Any subject is...

Any subject is...

Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.

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Imelda Marcos: I was no...

Imelda Marcos: I was no...

I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: Man is the...

Friedrich Nietzsche: Man is the...

Man is the cruelest animal.

Source:
-- Friedrich Nietzsche, (Oct 15 1844-1900),...

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Under pressure, people...

Under pressure, people...

Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being...

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