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  • Maxwell Maltz Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.
    Maxwell Maltz
    American surgeon and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Pablo Picasso Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.
    Pablo Picasso
    Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (1881 - 1973)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson Oh for someone with a heart, head and hand. Whatever they call them, what do I care, aristocrat, democrat, autocrat, just be it one that can rule and dare not lie.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Arthur Eddington Oh leave the Wise our measures to collate. One thing at least is certain, light has weight. One thing is certain and the rest debate. Light rays, when near the Sun, do not go straight.
    Arthur Eddington
    English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician (1882 - 1944)
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  • Thomas Haynes Bayly Oh! no! we never mention her, her name is never heard; my lips are now forbid to speak, that once familiar word.
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  • Oscar Wilde Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Boris Pasternak Oh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge in nature, apparently so inarticulate, or in the wordlessness of long grinding labor, of sound sleep, of true music, or of a human understanding, rendered speechless by emotion!
    Doctor Zhivago
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Jean Anouilh Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life.
    Ardèle ou la Marguerite
    Jean Anouilh
    French playwright (1910 - 1987)
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  • Margaret Oliphant Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better.
    Margaret Oliphant
    British writer, historian (1828 - 1897)
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  • Billy Eckstine Oh, yeah. I know Dizzy. For years he's been my buddy way, way, way back. Dizzy is one of the most astute guys and one of the most learned guys in the world and knows exactly what he's doing musically.
    Billy Eckstine
    American jazz and pop singer and a bandleader (1914 - 1993)
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  • Plato Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Horace Walpole Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?
    Horace Walpole
    British writer (1717 - 1797)
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  • Ang Lee On a Chinese film you just give orders, no one questions you. Here, you have to convince people, you have to tell them why you want to do it a certain way, and they argue with you. Democracy.
    Ang Lee
    Taiwanese film director, producer, and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Ignazio Silone On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.
    Ignazio Silone
    Italian writer and politician (ps by Secondo Tranquilli) (1900 - 1978)
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  • Wendell Phillips On a single winged word hath hung the destiny of nations.
    Wendell Phillips
    American Reformer, Orator (1811 - 1884)
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  • Oscar Wilde On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Carter Burwell On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that there can't be more like it is one of the reasons it's admirable.
    Carter Burwell
    American composer of film scores (1954 - )
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  • Henry Louis Mencken On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Janis Joplin On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
    Janis Joplin
    American singerer (1943 - 1970)
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