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Frank Lloyd Wright: The scientist has...

Frank Lloyd Wright: The scientist has...

The scientist has marched in and taken the place of the poet. But one day somebody will find the solution to the...

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Frank Lloyd Wright: The screech and...

Frank Lloyd Wright: The screech and...

The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of...

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Claude Monet: I am following...

Claude Monet: I am following...

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her . . . . I perhaps owe having become a painter to...

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Auguste Renoir: I've been forty...

Auguste Renoir: I've been forty...

I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.

Source: In...

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Martin H Fischer: Don't despise empiric...

Martin H Fischer: Don't despise empiric...

Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found...

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Benjamin Franklin: He was so...

Benjamin Franklin: He was so...

He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride...

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Frank Crane: Responsibility is the...

Frank Crane: Responsibility is the...

Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the only thing in the world that develops us, gives...

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Eugene O'Neill: Obsessed by a...

Eugene O'Neill: Obsessed by a...

Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of...

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Jean-Paul Sartre: If literature isn't...

Jean-Paul Sartre: If literature isn't...

If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.

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Christopher Isherwood: I am a...

Christopher Isherwood: I am a...

I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.

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J B Priestley: As we read...

J B Priestley: As we read...

As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that thank Heaven...

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Nikki Giovanni: Mistakes are a...

Nikki Giovanni: Mistakes are a...

Mistakes are a fact of life
It is the response to error that counts.


Source: Of...

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Terence: How often events,...

Terence: How often events,...

How often events, by chance, and quite unexpectedly, come to pass, which you had not dared even to hope...

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Beth Henley: He started hating...

Beth Henley: He started hating...

He started hating me, cause I couldn't laugh at his jokes. I just started finding it impossible to laugh at his jokes...

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Zora Neale Hurston: It would be...

Zora Neale Hurston: It would be...

It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. . . . We will go...

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Zora Neale Hurston: There is no...

Zora Neale Hurston: There is no...

There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you.

Source: In Words of...

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Alan Jay Lerner: All I want...

Alan Jay Lerner: All I want...

All I want is a room somewhere,
Far away from the cold night air;
With one enormous chair . . .
Oh, wouldn't...

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Charles Schwab: Personality is to...

Charles Schwab: Personality is to...

Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower.

Source: Ten Commandments of...

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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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Anita Roddick: I hope to...

Anita Roddick: I hope to...

I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs.

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