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  • Leonard Bernstein Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.
    Leonard Bernstein
    American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer and pianist (1918 - 1990)
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  • Aaron Copland Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.
    Aaron Copland
    American composer and writer (1900 - 1990)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • C. S. Lewis Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Charles Simmons Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.
    Charles Simmons
    American editor and novelist (1798 - 1856)
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  • Georges Bataille Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.
    Georges Bataille
    French writer and critic (1897 - 1962)
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  • James Dent Intelligence is like an underwear. It is important that you have it, but not necessary that you show it off.
    James Dent
    American author (1953 - )
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  • Elbert Hubbard Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, But quickly to see how to make them good.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Karl Kraus Intercourse with a woman is sometimes a satisfactory substitute for masturbation. But it takes a lot of imagination to make it work.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Billy Crudup Interest in certain themes doesn't mandate a personal stake or personal experience of those themes. I've killed people in plays, but no one asks me what it's like to kill people.
    Billy Crudup
    American actor (1968 - )
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  • Jonathan Swift Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Bernadette Peters Into The Woods was... a lot of running around in the woods! I can't wait to see the show again. People didn't realize it back then, but kids still come up to me-young people-and they talk about it. It really made its mark.
    Bernadette Peters
    American actress, singer, and author (1948 - )
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  • Florence Scovel Shinn Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.
    Florence Scovel Shinn
    American artist, writer
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  • Carmen Busquets Investors are impatient and they are also desperate for the 'next big thing,' and they are not paying attention to the fact that the 'next big thing' can be an economic crisis that they have created by being very irresponsible with their power.
    Carmen Busquets
    Venezuelan entrepreneur, philanthropist and investor (1965 - )
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  • Thomas Szasz Involuntary mental hospitalization is like slavery. Refining the standards for commitment is like prettifying the slave plantations. The problem is not how to improve commitment, but how to abolish it.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • Bruce Dickinson Iron Maiden is an institution, and I'm delighted that I'm involved in it, but there was a time that I wasn't delighted so I quit.
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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  • Plato Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for the physician's interest, but that all seek the good of their patients? For we have agreed that a physician strictly so called, is a ruler of bodies, and not a maker of money, have we not?
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Bob Diamond Is it okay for a U.S. bank to pay a U.S. banker but not a U.K. bank to pay a U.S. banker?
    Bob Diamond
    Anglo-American banker (1951 - )
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