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Hard writing makes...

Hard writing makes...

Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading.

Source: In

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Discipline is based...

Discipline is based...

Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline...

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Niccolo Machiavelli: One change leaves...

Niccolo Machiavelli: One change leaves...

One change leaves the way open for the introduction of others.

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Soren Kierkegaard: Life can only...

Soren Kierkegaard: Life can only...

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

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Swami Ramdas: Just as a...

Swami Ramdas: Just as a...

Just as a flower gives out its fragrance to whomsoever approaches our uses it, so love from within us radiates towards...

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Kevin Costner: I remember when...

Kevin Costner: I remember when...

I remember when I was growing up. . . . when you can say that, when you have those memories, you can consider yourself...

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Bertolt Brecht: As regards obstacles,...

Bertolt Brecht: As regards obstacles,...

As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.

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Hesiod: We know how...

Hesiod: We know how...

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true...

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Novalis: A character is...

Novalis: A character is...

A character is a completely fashioned will.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Vicki Baum: What I like...

Vicki Baum: What I like...

What I like about Hollywood is that one can get along by knowing two words of English -- SWELL and...

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Hannah Arendt: Fear is an...

Hannah Arendt: Fear is an...

Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Maxine Hong Kingston: The difference between...

Maxine Hong Kingston: The difference between...

The difference between mad people and sane people . . . is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad...

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J R R Tolkien: His house was...

J R R Tolkien: His house was...

His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and...

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Mahatma Gandhi: Honest differences are...

Mahatma Gandhi: Honest differences are...

Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.

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Edward Rickenbacker: Aviation is proof...

Edward Rickenbacker: Aviation is proof...

Aviation is proof that given the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.

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Michel Foucault: In its function,...

Michel Foucault: In its function,...

In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or...

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P D James: What the detective...

P D James: What the detective...

What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.

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Antoine de Saint-Exupery: Let a man...

Antoine de Saint-Exupery: Let a man...

Let a man in a garret but burn with enough tensity and he will set fire to the whole...

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Aldous Huxley: It is far...

Aldous Huxley: It is far...

It is far easier to write ten passable effective sonnets, good enough to take in the not too inquiring critic, than...

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Sigmund Freud: From error to...

Sigmund Freud: From error to...

From error to error one discovers the entire truth.

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