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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It is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa. ~Jane Austen
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For me, poetry is always a search for order. ~Elizabeth Jennings
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I never really thought about becoming a professional musician. ~John Mayall
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Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel. ~Jimi Hendrix
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The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed. ~Abraham Lincoln
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I am usually called upon to play the dreary suicidal girl. ~Hope Davis
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We are actors, we have to do what we have to do, and you have to be really solid within yourself. ~Linda Gray
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I mean, sometimes, a comedian becomes an actor, and they just don't deliver, because the bottom line of comedy is to be funny, and the bottom line of acting is to be truthful, and they get that mixed up sometimes, or don't even notice that that's the thing. ~Eddie Izzard
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He who eats alone chokes alone. ~Proverb
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In my humble opinion, change is stupid. ~Rafael Nadal
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They said to the wolf, "For what art thou following those poor little sheep?" He replied, "The dust upon which they tread is good for poor little eyes!" ~ Arabic Proverb
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The fraud is not complete unless it be practised upon clever and cunning persons. ~Arabic Proverb
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Today, in the Internet gold rush, so many people go into dot-com jobs right from school or even before finishing. Their motivation is understandable, but sometimes they just lack experience. ~Mitch Kapor
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I know some of you are, thinking, maybe I deserved it. But before you start pointing fingers, let me ask you. Is what I did really so bad? So bad I deserved to die? So bad I deserved to die like that? Is what I did really much worse than what anybody else does? Is it really so much worse than what you do? ~Lauren Oliver
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He is like the perverse porter who calls upon God only when he is under the load. ~Arabic Proverb
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I realized that even in a world of proliferating media venues, online and in print, and on TV and on countless cable channels, the idea that I could be considered an expert on chronic knee pain was I think troubling for society, but very exciting for me. ~John Hodgman
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Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. ~George Bernard Shaw
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The harm that theology has done is not to create cruel impulses, but to give them the sanction of what professes to be lofty ethic, and to confer an apparently sacred character upon practices which have come down from more ignorant and barbarous times. ~Bertrand Russell
#quotes #bertrand-russell #theology

We are supernaturalists first, not naturalists. The only reason we feel compelled to accommodate science is that science says we ought to. But it is science that should accommodate revelation. Revelation has been around much longer. ~Matt Chandler
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The thing I always say to people is this: "If you avoid failure, you also avoid success." ~Robert Kiyosaki
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A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing. ~Pearl Bailey
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A life without love is like a year without summer. ~Swedish Proverb
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I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well you have addressed the world's deepest inequities... on how well you treated people a world away who have nothing in common with you but your humanity. ~Bill Gates
#quotes #bill-gates #philanthropy #humanity

Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight. ~English Proverb
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