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  • Bill Sienkiewicz To me, that's one of the things that I love about doing this stuff. One day I can work on this piece in watercolor, and then work on something else on the computer, or work on something else that's a completely different approach.
    Bill Sienkiewicz
    American artist (1958 - )
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  • Jessamyn West To meet at all, one must open ones eyes to another; and there is no true conversation no matter how many words are spoken, unless the eye, unveiled and listening, opens itself to the other.
    Jessamyn West
    American author of short stories and novels (1902 - 1984)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch To most people loneliness is a doom. Yet loneliness is the very thing which God has chosen to be one of the schools of training for His very own. It is the fire that sheds the dross and reveals the gold.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Bertrand Russell To one, science is an exalted goddess, to another it is a cow which provides him with butter.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Georges Bataille To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.
    Georges Bataille
    French writer and critic (1897 - 1962)
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  • Vauvenargues To possess taste, one must have some soul.
    Vauvenargues
    French philosopher (1715 - 1747)
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  • Benjamin Haydon To procrastinate seems inherent in man, for if you do to-day that you may enjoy to-morrow it is but deferring the enjoyment; so that to be idle or industrious, vicious or virtuous, is but with a view of procrastinating the one or the other.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • James Allen To put away aimlessness and weakness, and to begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment; who make all conditions serve them, and who think strongly, attempt fearlessly, and accomplish masterfully.
    James Allen
    British philosophical writer (1864 - 1912)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Charles Kuralt To read the papers and to listen to the news... one would think the country is in terrible trouble. You do not get that impression when you travel the back roads and the small towns do care about their country and wish it well.
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  • Jean Rostand To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Alexander Chase To remain young one must change.
    Alexander Chase
    American journalist and editor (1926 - )
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  • Victor Hugo To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost - that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization - is to extend the scope of social observation and to serve civilization.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Karl von Bonstetten To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - and to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love.
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  • Barbara Deming To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience.
    Barbara Deming
    American feminist and advocate (0 - 1984)
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  • Tryon Edwards To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.
    Tryon Edwards
    American theologian (1809 - 1894)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Ayn Rand To say "I love you" one must first be able to say the "I.".
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • George Orwell To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.
    In Front of Your Nose (1946)
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • George Steiner To shoot a man because one disagrees with his interpretation of Darwin or Hegel is a sinister tribute to the supremacy of ideas in human affairs - but a tribute nevertheless.
    George Steiner
    French-born American Critic, Novelist (1929 - 2020)
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