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  • Cliff Fadiman Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.
    Cliff Fadiman
    American writer
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  • Madame Guizot Much misconstruction and bitterness are spared to him who thinks naturally upon what he owes to others rather than what he ought to expect from them.
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  • Bayard Rustin My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.
    Bayard Rustin
    American activist (1912 - 1987)
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  • Barbara Corcoran My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Willem De Kooning My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that way. I can see of course that, in the abstract, thinking and all activity is rather desperate.
    Willem De Kooning
    Dutch-American painter (1904 - 1997)
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  • Mick Jagger My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.
    Mick Jagger
    English singer-songwriter, composer and actor (1943 - )
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Necessity is not an established fact, but rather an interpretation.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Robert H. Schuller Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
    Robert H. Schuller
    American Christian televangelist, pastor, motivational speaker, and au (1926 - 2015)
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  • Billy Tauzin New Orleans has to learn to live with water rather than in fear of water, and we need a master plan that shows us how to do this. It's so critical that we send a signal to everyone in the country that we're serious about rebuilding New Orleans.
    Billy Tauzin
    American lobbyist and politician (1943 - )
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  • Seneca Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Bert McCracken No matter how many times people try to pick my lyrics apart... nobody will really understand what these songs truly mean to me because I would rather not get into it.
    Bert McCracken
    American singer (1982 - )
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  • George Eliot No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Arthur Erickson No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • William Law Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.
    William Law
    English priest (1686 - 1761)
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  • Sir James Matthew Barrie Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
    Sir James Matthew Barrie
    British playwright (1860 - 1937)
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  • George Halas Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.
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  • A.E. Hotchner Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can? I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done.
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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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  • Albert Einstein One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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