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  • Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
  • The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.

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  • Amelia Earhart The effect of having other interests beyond those domestic works well. The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.
    Amelia Earhart
    American aviation pioneer and author (1897 - 1937)
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  • P. D. James No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meeting and speaking. Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't false.
    P. D. James
    English crime writer (1920 - 2014)
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  • Samuel Johnson The Supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things - the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Samuel Butler A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Henry Miller Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Boris Pasternak Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Albrecht Durer As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.
    Albrecht Durer
    German painter (1471 - 1528)
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  • Bill Hybels Authentic Christians are persons who stand apart from others. Their character seems deeper, their ideas fresher, their spirit softer, their courage greater, their leadership stronger, their concerns wider, their compassion more genuine and their convictions more concrete.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • David Herbert Lawrence Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Armstrong Williams Bottom line: if you show a genuine interest in learning about how others became successful, you can open up a world of opportunities.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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  • Arthur Peacocke Classical philosophical theism maintained the ontological distinction between God and creative world that is necessary for any genuine theism by conceiving them to be of different substances, with particular attributes predicated of each.
    Arthur Peacocke
    English Anglican theologian and biochemist (1924 - 2006)
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  • Jean Paul Despair is the only genuine atheism.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Mother Teresa Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Henry Miller Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Beilby Porteus Friend to the wretch whom every friend forsakes, I woo thee, Death! Life and its joys I leave to those that prize them. Hear me, 0 gracious God! At Thy good time let Death approach; I reck not, let him but come in genuine form, not with Thy vengeance armed, too much for man to bear.
    Beilby Porteus
    English Bishop and reformer (1731 - 1809)
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  • Horace Mann Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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  • Alice Duer Miller Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.
    Alice Duer Miller
    American writer (1874 - 1942)
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  • T. S. Eliot Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Walter Benjamin Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Rufus Choate Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love for reading.
    Rufus Choate
    American lawyer, orator, and Congressman (1799 - 1859)
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