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  • Colm Toibin All writing is a form of manipulation, of course, but you realize that a plain sentence can actually do so much.
    Colm Toibin
    Irish novelist and writer (1955 - )
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  • Buddha All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Ernest Hemingway All you can be sure about in a political-minded writer is that if his work should last you will have to skip the politics when you read it. Many of the so-called politically enlisted writers change their politics frequently . Perhaps it can be respected as a form of the pursuit of happiness.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Blair Underwood All you can do is do the best you can and I did that. I had a great time. I made a product and I was not embarrassed by it at all so you do it and you move on.
    Blair Underwood
    American actor (1964 - )
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  • Basil Bunting All you can usually say about a poem or a picture is, 'Look at it, listen to it.' Whether you listen to a piece of music or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
    Source: On Poetry
    Basil Bunting
    British poet (1900 - 1985)
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  • Billy Porter All you need to do is turn on the news, and in five minutes, you're depressed with the state of the world. Choosing joy is a completely active choice. It doesn't just happen. You can't just say, 'I want to be happy.' You have to take action.
    Billy Porter
    American actor and singer (1969 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Virginia Woolf Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • A. A. Milne Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
    A. A. Milne
    English author, writer of the Winnie-the-Pooh books (1882 - 1956)
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  • Wyndham Lewis Almost anything that can be praised or advocated has been put to some disgusting use. There is no principle, however immaculate, that has not had its compromising manipulator.
    Wyndham Lewis
    British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
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  • Bob Monkhouse Although I have always loved the noise of laughter, I really can't fear the coming of quiet. As for funerals, I rather like them. Such nice things are always said about the deceased, I feel sad that they had to miss hearing it all by just a few days.
    Source: Obituary in The Independent
    Bob Monkhouse
    English entertainer and comedian (1928 - 2003)
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  • Queen Elizabeth I Although I may not be a lioness, I am a lion's cub, and inherit many of his qualities; and as long as the King of France treats me gently he will find me as gentle and tractable as he can desire; but if he be rough, I shall take the trouble to be just as troublesome and offensive to him as I can.
    Queen Elizabeth I
    Queen of England and Ireland (1533 - 1603)
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  • Arthur Winter Although there is a great deal of controversy among scientists about the effects of ingested food on the brain, no one denies that you can change your cognition and mood by what you eat.
    Arthur Winter
     
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  • Bobby Hull Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.
    Bobby Hull
    Canadian ice hockey player (1939 - )
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  • Lord George Byron Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Robert A. Heinlein Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.
    Robert A. Heinlein
    American science fiction writer (1907 - 1988)
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  • Edmund Burke Ambition can creep as well as soar.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Ben Jonson Ambition, like a torrent, ne'er looks back;
    And is a swelling, and the last affection
    A high mind can put off; being both a rebel
    Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth
    All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion,
    and offereth violence to nature's self.
    Source: Catiline His Conspiracy
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Buzz Aldrin America can take man to the moon, and America can take men to Mars - and beyond.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Bill Frist America enjoys the best health care in the world, but the best is no good if folks can't afford it, access it and doctor's can't provide it.
    Bill Frist
    American physician, businessman and politician (1952 - )
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