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  • Richard Bach Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.
    Richard Bach
    American author (1936 - )
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  • Mark Twain Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Benjamin E. Mays ... the circumference of life cannot be rightly drawn until the center is set.
    Benjamin E. Mays
    American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1894 - 1984)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Helen Rowland A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Helen Rowland A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Sydney Smith A nation grown free in a single day is a child born with the limbs and the vigor of a man, who would take a drawn sword for his rattle, and set the house in a blaze that he might chuckle over the splendor.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Bruce Springsteen And whether you're drawn to gospel music or church music or honky-tonk music, it informs your character and it informs your talent.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Ezra Pound Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • J. K. Rowling Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
    J. K. Rowling
    British novelist, screenwriter, and producer (1965 - )
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  • Augusten Burroughs As a child, I was never drawn toward depraved or extreme situations; I really wanted a normal little childhood. Unfortunately, that's just not what happened.
    Augusten Burroughs
    American writer (1965 - )
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  • E. M. Forster At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Barbara Januszkiewicz Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.
    Barbara Januszkiewicz
    American painter (1955 - )
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  • Carl Friedrich Gauss But in our opinion truths of this kind should be drawn from notions rather than from notations.
    About the proof of Wilsons theorem. Disquisitiones Arithmeticae (1801)
    Carl Friedrich Gauss
    German mathematician and physicist (1777 - 1855)
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  • René Daumal Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.
    René Daumal
    French writer, philosopher and poet (1908 - 1944)
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  • Caleb Cushing Cruel war, war at home; and in the perspective distance, a man on horseback with a drawn sword in his hand, some Atlantic Caesar, or Cromwell, or Napoleon.
    On what the impending civil strife would mean to the nation. Speech, Bangor, Maine, 11 January 1860.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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  • Ben Foster Every job is a blessing. Everyone has to take into account what is available. Are you paying rent, who do you get to work with? There are a lot of variables in the job. What I'm drawn to is things that I don't completely understand maybe, and want to get a better feel for it.
    Ben Foster
    American actor (1980 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis Every poet and musician and artist, but for Grace, is drawn away from love of the thing he tells to love of the telling till, down in Deep Hell, they cannot be interested in God at all but only in what they say about Him.
    The Great Divorce (1944)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • R. Jefferies Except by illustrations drawn from familiair things, there is no way of indicating a new idea.
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  • Henry David Thoreau Explore thyself. Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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