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  • The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing -to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts. Not a select party.

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  • Allen Ginsberg Fortunately art is a community effort, a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.
    Allen Ginsberg
    American poet (1926 - 1997)
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  • Joseph Addison True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • John Keats The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing -to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts. Not a select party.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • A. W. Tozer The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.
    A. W. Tozer
    American Christian pastor, preacher and author
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  • Joseph Addison True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Will Rogers America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences - which is the mostest? which is the leastest? They smell, taste, bite, and touch-test for hardness, softness, springiness, roughness, smoothness, coldness, warmness: they heft, shake, punch, squeeze, push, crush, rub, and try to pull things apart.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Cass Sunstein If you have an architecture of control, let's say, where you select in advance everything that's going to affect your life, then you're going to live in a very small world that will have an echo chamber feature... Pandora, which I love, actually feeds into that.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Elbert Hubbard If you want work well done, select a busy man; the other kind has no time.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Cass Sunstein In a well-functioning democracy, people frequently encounter topics and points of view that they did not specifically select but from which they learn. Those encounters can change minds and, even, the course of lives.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Walter Savage Landor My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
    Walter Savage Landor
    British poet (1775 - 1864)
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  • Barry Ritholtz The ability to select stocks, manage them over time and know when to sell them is incredibly difficult, even for professional fund managers.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Orson Welles The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of that yawning vacuum, to be the audience and to select from what happens during the day which movement shall be a disaster and which a gala night. His job is to preside over accidents.
    Orson Welles
    American film maker (1915 - 1985)
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  • Arthur Herzog The main advantage of the omniscient approach is that it's the easiest to handle. That's the major reason so many writers select it.
    Arthur Herzog
    American novelist, non-fiction writer, and journalist (1927 - 2010)
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  • Boris Sidis The man of genius whether as artist or thinker requires a mass of accidental variations to select from and a rigidly selective process of attention.
    The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology (1914)
    Boris Sidis
    Ukrainian-American psychologist, psychiatrist, and philosopher (1867 - 1923)
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  • Alfred Jarry The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and where for one unique evening the audience is almost expurgated of idiots.
    Alfred Jarry
    French playwright, author (1873 - 1907)
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  • Bob Ross Traditionally, art has been for the select few. We have been brainwashed to believe that Michelangelo had to pat you on the head at birth.
    Bob Ross
    American painter, art instructor and television personality (1942 - 1995)
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  • Gail Sheehy We hear the haunting presentiment of a dutiful middle age in the current reluctance of young people to select any option except the one they feel will impinge upon them the least.
    Gail Sheehy
    American author, journalist, and lecturer (1936 - 2020)
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  • Cyril Connolly We must select the Illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Take not God's name in vain; select a time when it will have effect.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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