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  • B. J. Novak Different people have different styles, but there is an opportunity as a director to be a writer in every moment, with every visual cue and every piece of production design. Everything is a decision, and everything can be obsessed over.
    B. J. Novak
    American actor, writer, comedian, and director (1979 - )
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  • Marquis de Sade Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing. Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it's the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husband's mood.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Sri Swami Sivananda Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.
    Sri Swami Sivananda
    Indian Hindu spiritual teacher (1887 - 1963)
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  • Edwin Hubbel Chapin Do not judge from mere appearances; for the lift laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy. The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.
    Edwin Hubbel Chapin
    American author and clergyman (1814 - 1880)
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  • Arundhati Roy Do you think that the people of South Africa, or anywhere on the continent of Africa, or India, or Pakistan are longing to be kicked around all over again?
    Arundhati Roy
    Indian author (1961 - )
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman Doctrine tied itself into infinite knots over the realities of sex.
    Source: A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • Baltasar Gracian Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.
    Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Sam Slick Don't stand shivering upon the bank; plunge in at once, and have it over.
    Sam Slick
     
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  • Dr. James C. Dobson Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.
    Dr. James C. Dobson
    American evangelical Christian author
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  • François Rabelais Draw the curtain, the fraud is over.
    François Rabelais
    French writer (1483 - 1553)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing -a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Eliza Farnham Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.
    Eliza Farnham
    American novelist, feminist and abolitionist (1815 - 1864)
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  • Bobby Scott Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads.
    Bobby Scott
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Anais Nin Electric flesh-arrows... traversing the body. A rainbow of color strikes the eyelids. A foam of music falls over the ears. It is the gong of the orgasm.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Abdul Kalam English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese.
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • Norman Vincent Peale Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
    Norman Vincent Peale
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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  • Barbara Corcoran Especially if you're over 40, shortening the term of your loan to pay it off sooner could make you mortgage-free in retirement.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Bernie Sanders Establishing a 0.03 percent Wall Street speculation fee, similar to what we had from 1914-1966, would dampen the dangerous level of speculation and gambling on Wall Street, encourage the financial sector to invest in the productive economy and reduce the deficit by more than $350 billion over 10 years.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Louis Ferdinand Céline Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren't so many of them left. Think it over... no more syphilis, no more clap, no more typhoid... antibiotics have taken half the tragedy out of medicine.
    Louis Ferdinand Céline
    French writer (1894 - 1961)
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