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Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise. More Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. More Samuel Beckett
A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie. More C. E. Montague
I'm always described as 'cocksure' or 'with a swagger,' and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel plagued by insecurity. More Ben Affleck
Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. More Thomas Paine
All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience. More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Chopper: [Jimmy has stabbed Chopper seven times] It's all right, Jimmy. I don't hate you. You just broke my heart. More Movie: Chopper [2000] Movie: Chopper [2000]
He and Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift the three of them represented a new age in acting. Acting entered a kind of realism [in the mid-'50s] that was exploring depth of emotion for males, and a reality that was more accurate. More John Travolta
Friendships begin with liking or gratitude roots that can be pulled up. More George Eliot
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. More Henry David Thoreau
Henri Ducard: You traveled the world... Now you must journey inwards... to what you really fear... it's inside you... there is no turning back. Your parents' death was not your fault. Your training is nothing. The will is everything. If you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, you become something else entirely. Are you ready to begin? More Movie: Batman Begins [2005] Movie: Batman Begins [2005]
As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth? More Richard Whately
Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining those rewards which the accomplishment may deserve. She is not easily persuaded to believe that the force of merit can be resisted by obstinacy and avarice, or its luster darkened by envy and malignity. More Samuel Johnson
In countries where associations are free, secret societies are unknown. In America there are factions, but no conspiracies. More Alexis De Tocqueville
I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation. More Samuel Osgood
A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live. More Jesse Louis Jackson
Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time. More Henry Ward Beecher
Of Consciousness, her awful Mate. The Soul cannot be rid -- as easy the secreting her behind the Eyes of God. More Emily Dickinson
Our major universities are now stuck with an army of pedestrian, toadying careerists, Fifties types who wave around Sixties banners to conceal their record of ruthless, beaver-like tunneling to the top. More Sandy Gallin
When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers. More Colleen C. Barrett

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