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  • Michael Korda This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.
    Michael Korda
    American publisher (1933 - )
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  • Bobby Bonilla This is what you work for, putting all the other crap that you hear aside. Just being able to participate in a World Series is pretty much everything. But you do want to win!
    Bobby Bonilla
    American Major League Baseball player (1963 - )
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  • Bob Dylan This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Thomas Traherne This moment exhibits infinite space, but there is a space also wherein all moments are infinitely exhibited, and the everlasting duration of infinite space is another region and room of joys.
    Thomas Traherne
    British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic (1636 - 1674)
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  • Bruce Springsteen This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live for.
    Time magazine 27 October 1975
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Alfred Hitchcock This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.
    Alfred Hitchcock
    English moviedirector (1899 - 1980)
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  • Buddy Wakefield This poem may have meant nothing to you but I am confident that tonight my taking the time to actually write out my anger instead of acting on it has saved the life of at least eleven people in parking enforcement.
    Poetry Flare Guns and Earthquakes
    Buddy Wakefield
    American poet and actor (1974 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley This really revolutionary revolution is to be achieved, not in the external world, but in the souls and flesh of human beings.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Lord George Byron This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau ideal.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Bob Kane This sounds like my autobiography, but I thought this would be a good time to sound off about myself, as I think that I have been silent too long about my views and opinions.
    Bob Kane
    American comic book writer, animator and artist (1915 - 1998)
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  • Algernon Sydney This submission is a restraint of liberty, but could be of no effect as to the good intended, unless it were general; nor general, unless it were natural.
    Algernon Sydney
    English politician (1623 - 1683)
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  • Arthur Golden This time all the historical details and things were right. But I'd written it again in third person, and people found it dry. I decided to throw that one away.
    Arthur Golden
    American writer (1956 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung This world is empty to him alone who does not understand how to direct his libido towards objects, and to render them alive and beautiful for himself, for Beauty does not indeed lie in things, but in the feeling that we give to them.
    The Psychology of the Unconscious (1943)
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Doris Lessing This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we -we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything.
    Doris Lessing
    British novelist (1919 - 2013)
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  • Hubert Humphrey This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Carl Sagan Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human beings will prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition. They avoid rather than confront the world. But those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and prejudices, will penetrate its deepest mysteries.
    Cosmos (1980)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Bill Hicks Those guys were in hog heaven, man. They had a weapons catalog, What's G-12 do, Tommy? Says here it destroys everything but the fillings in their teeth, helps pay for the war effort. Well, shit, pull that one up! Pull up G-12, please. ] ...Cool. What's G-13 do?
    Relentless
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Eric Hoffer Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind's desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
    Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays (1997) p. 332
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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