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William Bernbach: An idea can...

William Bernbach: An idea can...

An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.

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Bruce Barton: It would do...

Bruce Barton: It would do...

It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s...

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Bruce Barton: As a profession...

Bruce Barton: As a profession...

As a profession advertising is young; as a force it is as old as the world. The first four words ever uttered, 'Let...

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Alexis Carrel: The most efficient...

Alexis Carrel: The most efficient...

The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one's day and every night to examine the...

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Primo Levi: The aims of...

Primo Levi: The aims of...

The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Source: The Drowned and the...

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Peter Medawar: If politics is...

Peter Medawar: If politics is...

If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded...

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Leon Battista Alberti: A man can...

Leon Battista Alberti: A man can...

A man can do all things if he but wills them.

Source: In The Book of Success, ed....

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Bernard Berenson: Between truth and...

Bernard Berenson: Between truth and...

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Edgar Degas: It is all...

Edgar Degas: It is all...

It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That...

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Edgar Degas: One must do...

Edgar Degas: One must do...

One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even...

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Auguste Renoir: If the painter...

Auguste Renoir: If the painter...

If the painter works directly from nature, he ultimately looks for nothing but momentary effects; he does not try to...

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Jean-Paul Sartre: Everything has been...

Jean-Paul Sartre: Everything has been...

Everything has been figured out except how to live.

Source: In 1,911 Best Things...

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George Gordon Byron: If I don't...

George Gordon Byron: If I don't...

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. I do not understand...

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George Gordon Byron: If I am...

George Gordon Byron: If I am...

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved...

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Kim Cattrall: I think the...

Kim Cattrall: I think the...

I think the wonderful thing about doing theater is that it's more of an actor's medium. I think that film is more of a...

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Agnes George DeMille: No trumpets sound...

Agnes George DeMille: No trumpets sound...

No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known...

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David Cronenberg: Everybody's a mad...

David Cronenberg: Everybody's a mad...

Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve...

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Robert Bolt: When a man...

Robert Bolt: When a man...

When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he opens his fingers...

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Andrew Schneider: Talking is what...

Andrew Schneider: Talking is what...

Talking is what I do... i t's a real need with me, a craving, I'm like a word junkie. I never shut up. I talk to...

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Michael Caine: The basic rule...

Michael Caine: The basic rule...

The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly -- because if they...

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