Connoisseurs think the art is already done. ~John Constable
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Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world. ~Jack Nicholson
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U.S. exports to China have more than quintupled since China entered the WTO and have grown more quickly than imports. In fact, China is America's fastest-growing export market. ~Henry Paulson
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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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No matter who you are, there is always some part of you that wishes you were someone else, and when, for a millisecond, you get that wish, it's a miracle. ~Jodi Picoult
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The starting point of my career in money management in 1973-74 was the time of the only true bear market any living non-Japanese investor has seen in major markets. Equities, real estate, you name it, everyone got run over. ~Paul Singer
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It is not economical to go to bed early to save candles if the result is twins. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you kick a stone in anger, you'll hurt your own foot. ~Korean Proverb
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The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth. ~Chinese Proverb
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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
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The fraud is not complete unless it be practised upon clever and cunning persons. ~Arabic Proverb
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Caddy got the box and set it on the floor and opened it. It was full of stars. When I was still, they were still. When I moved, they glinted and sparkled. I hushed. ~William Faulkner
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She thougt of sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west. ~Thomas Pynchon
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Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow. ~Anita Desai
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It's hard to maintain both smack and crack habits and remember to keep up mobile-phone payments. ~Irvine Welsh
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There is never any end. There are always new sounds to imagine; new feelings to get at. And always, there is the need to keep purifying these feelings and sounds so that we can really see what we have discovered in its pure state. ~John Coltrane
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If we do not change our direction we are likely to end up where we are headed. ~Chinese Proverb
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In science, each new result, sometimes quite surprising, heralds a step forward and allows one to discard some hypotheses, even though one or two of these might have been highly favored. ~Stanley B. Prusiner
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Braniac dumb-dumbs, bust the scientifical.
Approach to the course and the force is centrifugal. Can you find your way through the lyrics that be catching them? Throw another rhyme across the room, they be fetching them. ~Masta Ace
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I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny. ~Barbara Mertz
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Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son. ~Russian Proverb
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I have the courage of my convictions. ~Brigitte Bardot
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There is something of a painting of a woman that represents all women; and by extension, all of humanity; that I just find very exciting. It is a nice distillation, I think, of what it means to be alive. ~Will Cotton
#quotes #will-cotton #painting #art #women

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true. ~William James
#quotes #william-james #life #faith #optimism

Just the type of music that was around at the same time as I was writing. Some of it was wicked, definitely. But there was just one direction which I thought could be pushed that no one was pushing. ~Tom Jenkinson
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