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  • Wallace Stevens The genuine artist is never ''true to life.'' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.
    Wallace Stevens
    American poet (1879 - 1955)
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  • Bob Dylan The geometry of innocence flesh on the bone
    Causes Galileo's math book to get thrown
    At Delilah who sits worthlessly alone
    But the tears on her cheeks are from laughter
    Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public asks for a controlling sincerity.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Alfred Rosenberg The German people is not marked by original sin, but by original nobility.
    Alfred Rosenberg
    German Nazi theorist and ideologue (1893 - 1946)
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  • George Borrow The Germans are the most philosophic people in the world, and the greatest smokers: now I trace their philosophy to their smoking. Smoking has a sedative effect upon the nerves, and enables a man to bear the sorrows of this life (of which every one has his share) not only decently, but dignifiedly.
    George Borrow
    English writer of novels and travel books (1803 - 1881)
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  • Bonnie Bassler The goal of scientists is you hope that the thing you're working on is bigger than the thing you're pipetting into that tube at that moment.
    Bonnie Bassler
    American molecular biologist
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  • Andrew Johnson The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.
    Andrew Johnson
    American politician and 17th US president (1808 - 1875)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The god of victory is said to be one-handed, but peace gives victory on both sides.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • George Eliot The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Carol Loomis The good thing about a dealer's derivatives portfolio is that it is marked to market.
    Carol Loomis
    American financial journalist (1929 - )
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  • Busy Philipps The good thing about being pregnant is that I don't have to worry about sucking it in or dieting!
    Busy Philipps
    American actress and writer (1979 - )
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  • Bill Flores The good thing about Cruz is we know who he is today, and we'll know exactly who he'll be in the White House.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Brendan Gleeson The good thing about my part in 'Harry Potter' was that I was pretty well disguised. When I was walking down the street, there was no real recognition factor. Parents would sometimes call their children to come say hello to Mad-Eye, and the kids wouldn't know what they were looking at.
    Brendan Gleeson
    Irish actor and film director (1955 - )
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  • Bjork The good thing about Pro Tools is you can actually hear what you're working on, so it doesn't just become this intellectual idea. But Pro Tools can be dangerous, too. It can make things sterile.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Seneca The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Bill Murray The government can destroy wealth but it cannot create wealth, which is the product of labor and management working with creation.
    Bill Murray
    American actor, comedian, and writer (1950 - )
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  • John C. Calhoun The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised.
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  • Benjamin Disraeli The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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