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Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
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Perhaps one reason for the falling-off of belief in a continuance of conscious existence is to be found in the quality of life that most of us lead. There is not much in it with which, in any kind of reason, one can associate the idea of immortality.
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Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not originate. To discover something wholly new can be a matter of chance, of idle tinkering, or even of the chronic dissatisfaction of the untalented.
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Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
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Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn't come here. Well, it can't hide forever - one day we will overhear it.
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Periodically, at the end of a conversation, someone will ask me, 'Is there something I can do for you?' I used to answer with 'Do something that is helpful to something or someone in my world.'
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Persevere in a thorough determination to do whatever you have to do, as well as you can do it.
Source: Letter to Edward Dickens 26 sept. 1868 -
Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour.
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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child's play.
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Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!
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Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.
Source: Berenice Abbott, photographer: a modern vision : a selection of photographs and essays -
Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.
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Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.
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Pitchers are going to break. You can limit their pitches and limit their innings, and they're still going to blow out. Pitching is hard on the arm.
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Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.
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Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.
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Play every shot so that the next one will be the easiest that you can give yourself.
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Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.
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Playing live is really the art form. You're a lot freer, a lot looser. You've got people there that can give you feedback, and then you can play off of that. There's so much more energy.
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