Under capitalism, man exploits man; under socialism, the reverse is true. ~Polish Proverb
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All of the significant battles are waged within the self. ~Zen Proverb
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A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in. ~Robert Orben
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Do not speak unless you can improve on the silence. ~Spanish Proverb
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it. ~J. G. Ballard
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead. ~V. S. Naipaul
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The way I look at it is that once you create a piece of art, and it's out in the world, there's nothing you can do about it. People can use it the way they want to. There's nothing you can do about it. All you can hope for is that people that are using it are using it with the best intent. ~David Lloyd
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I am having a good time doing nothing. ~Phylicia Rashad
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No one can advise or help you; no one. There is only one thing you should do. Go into yourself. Search for the reason that bids you write, find out wether it spreading out its root in the deepest places of your heart. Delve into yourself for a deep answer ~Rainer Maria Rilke
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The path to inspiration starts upon the trails we've known; each stumbling block is not a rock, but just a stepping stone. ~Charles Ghigna
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, but an eternal now, does always last. ~Abraham Cowley
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Nothing got without pains but an ill name and long nails. ~Scottish Proverb
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Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life. ~Matthew Arnold
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Charity sees the need, not the cause. ~German Proverb
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful. ~Rumi
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If you chase two rabbits, you catch none. ~Confucius
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Human beings are a wonderful virus in some ways. ~Ansel Elgort
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Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out. ~Francis Bacon
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When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down. ~Natalia Vodianova
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I don't use Twitter. I'm a serious person. ~Paolo Sorrentino
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There are times when I don't take roles because I don't want to be perceived a certain way. ~Harvey Fierstein
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The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it's hard. If you think it's not hard, you're not doing it right. ~Gene Weingarten
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To contribute to the emergence of a society in which development will supplant stagnation, in which growth will take the place of decay, and in which culture will put an end to barbarism is the noblest, and, indeed, the only true function of intellectual endeavor. ~Paul A. Baran
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There is nothing Dutch about my architecture. ~Rem Koolhaas
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