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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • George Eliot For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities -a willing movement of a man's soul with the larger sweep of the world's forces -a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Boethius From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend —
    Path, motive, guide, original and end.
    Source: De Consolatione Philosophia Book III, section 9, line 27
    Boethius
    Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher (480 - 524)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Future: That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Denis Diderot Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.
    Denis Diderot
    French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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  • Thomas Fuller Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wrong.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Pablo Picasso Give me a museum, and I'll fill it.
    Pablo Picasso
    Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (1881 - 1973)
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  • Raymond Holliwell God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible intelligence pervading everything, even your own mind and body.
    Raymond Holliwell
    American author
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  • Benjamin Tillett God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if he finds her.
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  • Pablo Picasso God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying other things.
    Pablo Picasso
    Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (1881 - 1973)
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  • Thomas Fuller God makes, and apparel shapes; but it's money that finishes the man.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • William Shakespeare Good digestion waits an appetite, and health an both.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Thomas Fuller Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Erica Jong Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms!
    Erica Jong
    American author (1942 - )
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Hand: A singular instrument worn at the end of the human arm and commonly thrust into somebody's pocket.
    Source: The Devil's Dictionary
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Thomas Fuller Haste and rashness are storms and tempests, breaking and wrecking business; but nimbleness is a full, fair wind, blowing it with speed to the heaven.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • William Shakespeare He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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