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  • James Truslow Adams The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.
    James Truslow Adams
    American writer and historian (1878 - 1949)
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  • William Shakespeare The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel, but do not dull thy palm with entertainment of each new-hatched unfledged comrade.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Benito Martinez The fun part about doing voiceovers and all that stuff is that you're not yourself; you're some other looking thing and sounding thing and whatever else.
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  • Hugh Trevor-Roper The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions - which time and mediocrity can solve.
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  • Leonardo Da Vinci The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
    Leonardo Da Vinci
    Italian painter, engineer and musician (1452 - 1519)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Bill Viola The fundamental aspect of video is not the image, even though you can stand in amazement at what can be done electronically, how images can be manipulated and the really extraordinary creative possibilities. For me the essential basis of video is the movement - something that exists at the moment and changes in the next moment.
    Bill Viola
    American video artist (1951 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Albert Einstein The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone is great fun.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Anna Quindlen The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you'd never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Brenda Laurel The game business arose from computer programs that were written by and for young men in the late 1960s and early 1970s. They worked so well that they formed a very lucrative industry fairly quickly. But what worked for that demographic absolutely did not work for most girls and women.
    Brenda Laurel
    American video game designer and researcher (1950 - )
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  • Florence Scovel Shinn The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
    Florence Scovel Shinn
    American artist, writer
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  • William Lyon Phelps The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.
    William Lyon Phelps
    American author, critic and scholar (1865 - 1943)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Walt Whitman The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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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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  • 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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  • Alice Walker The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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