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Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.
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Everyone who has ever built anywhere a ''new heaven'' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
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Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.
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Hope is the expectation that something outside of ourselves, something or someone external, is going to come to our rescue and we will live happily ever after.
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I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..
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I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.
Source: Speech at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, February 24, 2004 -
I wouldn't mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking.
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I'm lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing.
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I've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night, or a dog of some kind to act pleased when you come in. You ever notice how a hotel room feels so lifeless?
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If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
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If men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not know that they ever had any.
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If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.
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In the exhaustless catalogue of Heaven's mercies to mankind the power we have of finding some germs of comfort in the hardest trials, must ever occupy the foremost place.
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In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
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It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.
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No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.
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No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
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No matter what the level of your ability, you have more potential than you can ever develop in a lifetime.
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No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.
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