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  • Mary Caroline Richards It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help each other when we stumble or tire, to weep and press on.
    Mary Caroline Richards
    American poet, potter, and writer (1916 - 1999)
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  • Cornelia Otis Skinner It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far.
    Cornelia Otis Skinner
    American actress and author (1899 - 1979)
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  • James Russell Lowell It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou go and no further.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • René Descartes It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
    René Descartes
    French philosopher, scientist (1596 - 1650)
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  • B. C. Forbes It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • Samuel Butler It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Bernadette Peters It Might As Well Be Spring... I used to sing that as a young girl in my voice lessons. Then I picked it up again and it spoke to me in a whole new way.
    Bernadette Peters
    American actress, singer, and author (1948 - )
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  • Bai Juyi It was early spring. They bathed her in the FlowerPure Pool,
    Which warmed and smoothed the creamy-tinted crystal of her skin
    The Song of Long Sorrow
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  • Bram Cohen It's always hard to predict what's coming up next. My main guess is that content creators will increasingly start using BitTorrent to distribute their own work directly.
    Bram Cohen
    American computer programmer (1975 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.
    The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell: 1872-1914
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Ben Zobrist Knowing the opportunity to win a championship here in Chicago, right now, that's the main motivation for me.
    Ben Zobrist
    American professional baseball player (1981 - )
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  • Carl Friedrich Gauss Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.
    Carl Friedrich Gauss
    German mathematician and physicist (1777 - 1855)
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  • Ezra Pound Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Marcus Aurelius Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Brantley Gilbert Main thing, really, is I write songs the way I wanna hear them and the way I think the people that come to our shows wanna hear them.
    Brantley Gilbert
    American country music singer, songwriter (1985 - )
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  • Lord George Byron Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Erich Fromm Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.
    Erich Fromm
    German - American philosopher and psychologist (1900 - 1980)
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  • Caleb Bingham Many are always praising the by-gone time, for it is natural that the old should extol the days of their youth; the weak, the time of their strength; the sick, the season of their vigor; and the disappointed, the spring-tide of their hopes.
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  • Buzz Aldrin Mars is much closer to the characteristics of Earth. It has a fall, winter, summer and spring. North Pole, South Pole, mountains and lots of ice. No one is going to live on Venus; no one is going to live on Jupiter.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • John Morley Maxims and aphorisms, let us remember that wisdom is the true salt of literature, and the books that are most nourishing are richly stored with it, and that is the main object to seek in reading books.
    John Morley
    British journalist, statesman (1838 - 1923)
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