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  • Augustus William Hare I have ever gained the most profit, and the most pleasure also, from the books which have made me think the most: and, when the difficulties have once been overcome, these are the books which have stuck the deepest root, not only in my memory and understanding, but likewise in my affections.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Henry David Thoreau I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and drink coarsely also.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Bruce Springsteen I have my ideas, I have my music and I also just enjoy showing off, so that's a big part of it. Also, I like to get up onstage and behave insanely or express myself physically, and the band can get pretty silly.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • E. F. Schumacher I have no doubt that it is possible to give a new direction to technological development, a direction that shall lead it back to the real needs of man, and that also means: to the actual size of man. Man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful. To go for giantism is to go for self-destruction.
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  • Garry Kasparov I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.
    Garry Kasparov
    Russian chess grandmaster (1963 - )
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  • George Eliot I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • John Bunyan I love to hear my Lord spoken of, and wherever I have seen the print of His shoe in the earth, there have I coveted to put mine also.
    John Bunyan
    British writer (1628 - 1688)
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  • Ann Beattie I must say also that it's never worked to my disadvantage that I have long, blond hair.
    Ann Beattie
    American novelist (1947 - )
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  • Arnold Schoenberg I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words.
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  • Richard Brinsley Sheridan I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.
    Richard Brinsley Sheridan
    Anglo-Irish dramatist (1751 - 1816)
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  • Alain de Botton I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts, it's also how you say it - that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • Alice Hoffman I really feel like the gift is also the curse. It's always half-and-half. Whatever brings you the most joy will also probably bring you the most pain. Always a price to pay.
    Alice Hoffman
    American novelist (1952 - )
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  • Alice Hoffman I really feel like the gift is also the curse. It's always half-and-half. Whatever brings you the most joy will also probably bring you the most pain. Always a price to pay.
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  • Adam Arkin I really would have been stupid not to have done it. It was also a film that was actually happening, I mean, Miramax was doing it, and it had a kind of legitimacy to it. And once I read the script, I was there.
    Adam Arkin
    American actor (1956 - )
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  • George Sand I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.
    George Sand
    French writer (1804 - 1876)
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  • Bryan Cogman I tend to write the episodes in the middle of the season, which can be a challenge because you've got to balance all these threads that have begun - and also make sure they will make sense with the overall plan going forward.
    Bryan Cogman
    American writer and producer (1979 - )
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  • Jose Manuel Barroso I think diversity can also be a resource, an asset, especially in a world that is becoming globalized, to deal with difference, to deal with variety, to deal with complexity.
    Jose Manuel Barroso
    Portuguese politician (1956 - )
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  • John McGahern I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.
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    John McGahern
    Irish writer and novelist (1934 - 2006)
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  • Vikram Seth I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
    Vikram Seth
    Indian novelist and poet (1952 - )
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  • Allen Ginsberg I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs - when I was 17 - that I realized I was talking through an empty skull... I wasn't thinking my own thoughts or saying my own thoughts.
    Allen Ginsberg
    American poet (1926 - 1997)
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