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  • Joseph Campbell What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.
    Joseph Campbell
    American mythologist (1904 - 1987)
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  • William Somerset Maugham What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Phyllis Schlafly What I am defending is the real rights of women. A woman should have the right to be in the home as a wife and mother.
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  • Anais Nin What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Audre Lorde What I leave behind has a life of its own.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Bruce Eric Kaplan What I like about graduation speeches is that they're an opportunity for someone to make sense of their life and to impart that wisdom to someone else. It's like a sanctioned self-help moment.
    Bruce Eric Kaplan
    American cartoonist
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  • Bre Pettis What I like on Kickstarter is when I see real innovation and I see people building something new. It makes me sad when I see things that are just the same technology; you aren't passing the technology forward.
    Bre Pettis
    American entrepreneur and video blogger
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  • Bernard Cornwell What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness.
    Bernard Cornwell
    British author of historical novels (1944 - )
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  • Adrian Lyne What I think is interesting is that the more you do, you have to invent a book of rules of what you can do and what you can't do. And the very real danger is that if your book of rules becomes a book of cliches.
    Adrian Lyne
    English film director, writer and producer (1941 - )
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  • Boris Johnson What I worry about is that people are losing confidence, losing energy, losing enthusiasm, and there's a real opportunity to get them into work.
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Bonnie Blair What I've learned from my own journey, and from my family's experience with cancer, is how important it is to stay positive and move forward. Not every day is going to be perfect; that's life. But staying positive is going to get you to the next day.
    Bonnie Blair
    American athlete and speed skater (1964 - )
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  • Peter Nivio Zarlenga What is a lie? It is to say what is real is not real. It is to deny the existence of what exists.
    Peter Nivio Zarlenga
    American businessman, founder of Blockbuster Videos
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  • Joseph Conrad What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow-men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer than reality and whose accumulated verisimilitude of selected episodes puts to shame the pride of documentary history?
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Rabindranath Tagore What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
    Rabindranath Tagore
    Indian mystic and poet (1861 - 1941)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung What is essential in a work of art is that it should rise far above the realm of personal life and speak to the spirit and heart of the poet as man to the spirit and heart of mankind.
    Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933)
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Boris Pasternak What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
    As quoted in Bridges to Infinity : The Human Side of Mathematics (1983)
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Pedro Calderón de la Barca What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.
    Pedro Calderón de la Barca
    Spanish playwright (1600 - 1681)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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