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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Ben Jonson A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Charles Brower A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
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  • Byron Howard A nice thing about being at Disney is that these movies can develop into a presence in theme parks and become something real, or maybe get a sequel or tell other stories.
    Byron Howard
    American film director and producer (1968 - )
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  • William Hazlitt A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man.
    Round table
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Lorrie Moore A novel is a daily labor over a period of years. A novel is a job. But a story can be like a mad, lovely visitor, with whom you spend a rather exciting weekend.
    Lorrie Moore
    American writer (1957 - )
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  • Pat Riley A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.
    Pat Riley
    American basketball coach (1945 - )
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  • Bjornstjerne Bjornson A people numerically large may attain to ways of thought and enterprise that no political censure can reduce to a minimum; but under narrower conditions, it may easily come about that the whole people will fall asleep.
    Bjornstjerne Bjornson
    Norwegian writer (1832 - 1910)
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  • Edith Hamilton A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
    Edith Hamilton
    American educator and author (1867 - 1963)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe A person can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Gabriel Garcia Marquez A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.
    Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    Colombian writer (1927 - 2014)
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  • Albert Einstein A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Charles Dickens A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Abdul Kalam A person with belief never grovels before anyone, whining and whimpering that it's all too much, that he lacks support, that he is being treated unfairly. Instead, such a person tackes problems head on and then affirms, 'As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.
    Wings of Fire
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • Brigitte Bardot A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.
    Brigitte Bardot
    French fashion model, singer and actress (1934 - )
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  • Diane Arbus A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
    Diane Arbus
    American photographer (1923 - 1971)
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  • Margaret Deland A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.
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  • T. S. Eliot A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Arthur Miller A playwright is the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave length as the audience, no one would know what in hell he was talking about. He is a kind of psychic journalist, even when he's great.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Arthur Miller A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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