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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you're doing well.
    Source: Critical Path (1981)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Jiddu Krishnamurti There is no need to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.
    Jiddu Krishnamurti
    Indian theosophist (1895 - 1986)
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  • Carrie Fisher There is no point at which you can say, 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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  • Byron Dorgan There is no social program in this country that is as important as a good job that pays well, that gives someone an opportunity to go to work, have some security, have benefits, and take care of their family and have a good life.
    Byron Dorgan
    American author, businessman (1942 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
    Source: The picture of Dorian Gray
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Carol Berg There is one plot point in one of the 'D'Arnath' books that I don't think I handled as well as I could have. Am I going to tell you which one? No way!
    Carol Berg
    American writer of fantasy novels (1948 - )
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  • Ben Kingsley There is so much to do on a film set. It is an extraordinarily invigorating and wonderful place to be, when things are running well.
    Ben Kingsley
    English actor (1943 - )
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  • Bernie S. Siegel There is survival behavior, and doctors need to learn from patients who do not die when they are supposed to, instead of saying, 'You're doing very well, so keep doing whatever you are doing.' They should be asking what their patient is doing and pass the information to other patients.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Robert Frost There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man - fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Carolina Herrera There isn't a book that has changed me, but I have favourites such as 'Pride and Prejudice' which I often re-read.
    Carolina Herrera
    Venezuelan fashion designer (1939 - )
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  • Mother Teresa There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Bill Pullman There's definitely a pattern of great British shows that get reinvented in America and do really well here, but I think 'Torchwood' is a bit different. It's more of a hybrid that doesn't exist as a reinvention.
    Bill Pullman
    American actor (1953 - )
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  • Ben Lovett There's no platform for an unsigned music scene in the main cities - it's all hyped acts or showcases behind closed doors. I read about artists that are doing it 'the old-fashioned way' and touring, as if that's a unique thing to do - well, that should just be the way it is.
    Ben Lovett
    American recording artist, film composer, songwriter and producer (1978 - )
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  • Barry McGuire There's only one drummer. We all travel to his beat. Well, I couldn't sing his song. Because for me, it wasn't a truthful statement. Well, Linda sang it, and it was a monster for her.
    Barry McGuire
    American singer-songwriter (1935 - )
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  • W. H. Auden There's only one good test of pornography. Get twelve normal men to read the book, and then ask them, ''Did you get an erection?'' If the answer is ''Yes'' from a majority of the twelve, then the book is pornographic.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Caroline Knapp These are big trade-offs for a simple piece of cake - add five hundred calories, subtract well-being, allure, and self-esteem - and the feelings behind them are anything but vain or shallow.
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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  • Brian P. Cleary These are books that want to be read out loud. These are books kids share with each other, and I think that's important.
    Brian P. Cleary
    American humorist and poet (1959 - )
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  • Caroline Dhavernas These two girls start wanting the same thing because in this neighborhood, they know all the guys so well. It's a small town and all the guys are just really boring to them.
    Caroline Dhavernas
    Canadian actress (1978 - )
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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