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  • Bram Stoker One and all we felt that the holy calm that lay like sunshine over the wasted face and form was only an earthly token and symbol of the calm that was to reign for ever.
    Dracula (1897) Dr. Seward of Lucy Westenra
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • Frederick Douglass One and God make a majority.
    Frederick Douglass
    African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator and writer (1818 - 1895)
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  • Bernard Cornwell One book at a time... though I'm usually doing the research for others while I'm writing, but that sort of research is fairly desultory and I like to stick to the book being written - and writing a book concentrates the mind so the research is more productive.
    Bernard Cornwell
    British author of historical novels (1944 - )
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  • David Herbert Lawrence One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Georgia O'Keeffe One can not be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America and then work.
    Georgia O'Keeffe
    American painter and artist (1887 - 1986)
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  • Bryan Adams One day I'll wake up and I'll have 10 or 12 songs and think, 'Oh that sounds like it could be a record.
    Bryan Adams
    Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer and guitarist (1959 - )
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  • Abe Lemons One day of practice is like one day of clean living. It doesn't do you any good.
    Abe Lemons
    American basketball player and coach (1922 - 2002)
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  • Anish Kapoor One does not set out with the idea that I've just had a great idea and now I'm going to go and carry it out. Almost all art that's made like that doesn't go anywhere.
    Anish Kapoor
    British Indian sculptor (1954 - )
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  • Sir Walter Scott One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • Anton Chekhov One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • May Sarton One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
    May Sarton
    American poet, novelist, pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton (1912 - 1995)
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  • Anna Julia Cooper One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God.
    Anna Julia Cooper
    American author, activist and sociologist (1858 - 1964)
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  • Anita Diamant One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish and English lines and see how the translator worked.
    Anita Diamant
    American author (1951 - )
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  • Carolyn Murphy One of my most laughable moments was when we visited the monkeys in Ubud - they really seemed to like me and at one point, I had three males on my head and shoulders.
    Carolyn Murphy
    American model and actress (1974 - )
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  • Bernice Johnson Reagon One of the biggest things I understood in a program like that was that it allowed more young African American scholars to do field research in the Caribbean and in Africa than had ever happened before in the history of the country and since.
    Bernice Johnson Reagon
    American composer, scholar, and social activist (1942 - )
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  • Carlo Ratti One of the ideas that was developed at MIT in a workshop was, imagine this pipe, and you've got valves, solenoid valves, taps, opening and closing. You create like a water curtain with pixels made of water. If those pixels fall, you can write on it: you can show patterns, images, text.
    Carlo Ratti
    Italian architect, engineer and activist
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  • Byron Howard One of the magical things about these anthropomorphic animal movies is that we can take things that are so common in our own world that we deal with, like the DMV, or moving to a new city, or our family, and show you a mirror image of those things, reflected in a whole new way. That's why animals are great.
    Byron Howard
    American film director and producer (1968 - )
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  • Randall Jarrell One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like a child.
    Randall Jarrell
    poet, critic, novelist, essayist (1914 - 1965)
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  • Malcolm Muggeridge One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
    Malcolm Muggeridge
    British Broadcaster (1903 - 1990)
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  • Beyonce Knowles One of the reasons I connect to the Super Bowl is that I approach my shows like an athlete.
    Beyonce Knowles
    American singer and actress (1981 - )
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