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  • Alice Walker People will say to you, Oh, you are fearless. That is so not true. We should stop saying that about people. It's a slander, really.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Bell Hooks People with healthy self-esteem do not need to create pretend identities. - From (2003) Rock My Soul
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Raoul Vaneigem People without imagination are beginning to tire of the importance attached to comfort, to culture, to leisure, to all that destroys imagination. This means that people are not really tired of comfort, culture and leisure, but of the use to which they are
    Raoul Vaneigem
    Belgian philosopher (1934 - )
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  • Barbara Kingsolver People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Will Rogers People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Calvin Trillin People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.
    Calvin Trillin
    American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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  • Cassandra Clare Perfect heroines, like perfect heroes, aren't relatable, and if you can't put yourself in the protagonist's shoes, not only will they not inspire you, but the book will be pretty boring.
    Cassandra Clare
    American author of young adult fiction (1973 - )
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  • A. J. P. Taylor Perfect soldier, perfect gentleman never gave offence to anyone not even the enemy.
    A. J. P. Taylor
    British historian (1906 - 1990)
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  • William Somerset Maugham Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Brene Brown Perfectionism is not the same thing as striving to be our best. Perfectionism is not about healthy achievement and growth; it's a shield.
    Brene Brown
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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  • Carter Burwell Performing written music, even when I've written it, is not very interesting to me.
    Carter Burwell
    American composer of film scores (1954 - )
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  • Jean Genet Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.
    Jean Genet
    French playwright and author (1910 - 1986)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman Perhaps by this time the 14th century was not quite sane. If enlightened self-interest is the criterion of sanity, in the verdict of Michelet, no epoch was more naturally mad.
    Source: A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Isadora Duncan Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?
    Isadora Duncan
    American Dancer (1877 - 1927)
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  • Stephen Vizinczey Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that the safety of the state depends on cultivating the imagination.
    Stephen Vizinczey
    Hungarian writer and critic (1933 - 2021)
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  • Andre Norton Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns, do not fit themselves into prescribed behavior, that they are so united to creative people.
    Andre Norton
    American writer of science fiction (1912 - 2005)
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  • Albert J. Nock Perhaps one reason for the falling-off of belief in a continuance of conscious existence is to be found in the quality of life that most of us lead. There is not much in it with which, in any kind of reason, one can associate the idea of immortality.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Eric Hoffer Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not originate. To discover something wholly new can be a matter of chance, of idle tinkering, or even of the chronic dissatisfaction of the untalented.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Andrew Wiles Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years. So even if I was on the right track, I could be living in the wrong century.
    Andrew Wiles
    English mathematician (1953 - )
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  • Brendan Myers Perhaps this is one of the last remaining strands of my Catholic upbringing, but to me the word 'worship' means absolute unquestioning affirmation of the authority of the deity. I'll not have that in my life. If you are wise, neither will you.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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