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Fortunately art is a community effort, a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.
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Frankly, I think if I won the lottery and won a billion dollars, I'd still want to continue doing this job. I love expressing myself through it. I've gotten to really love acting. And I've gotten to know Big Bird from the inside out so thoroughly it's like playing my kid. I can't imagine deliberately stopping.
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Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand.
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Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
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God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
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Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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He who interrupts the course of his spiritual exercises and prayer is like a man who allows a bird to escape from his hand; he can hardly catch it again.
St. John of the Cross
Spanish mystic, a Roman Catholic saint, a Carmelite friar and a priest (1542 - 1591) -
Honesty prospers in every condition of life.
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I do not mean to exclude altogether the idea of patriotism. I know it exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But I will venture to assert, that a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided b
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I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
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I like who I am, and am puzzled to find that not everybody shares this opinion.
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I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.
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I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.
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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
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If it weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
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If life doesn't offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one.
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If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.
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If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.
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In my life, I have prayed but one prayer: oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
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