"Words are alive; cut them and they bleed."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on words
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"There is a woman at the beginning of all great things."

Lamartine, Alphonse De on achievement
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"Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity."

Hoover, Herbert Clark on freedom
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"I remain just one thing, and one thing only -- and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician."

Chaplin, Charlie on jokes and jokers   

"I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more --the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort --to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires --and expires, too soon, too soon --before life itself."

Conrad, Joseph on youth
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"Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to operate the zoo, and the inmates are taking over the asylum."

Havner, Vance on civilization   

"So teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts to wisdom."

Bible on wisdom
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"Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use."

Watson, Thomas J. on wisdom
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"Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think."

Rand, Ayn on wealth
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"Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour."

Leacock, Stephen B. on life   

"Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway."

Angelou, Maya on nature
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"No monster vibration, no snake universe hallucinations. Many tiny jeweled violet flowers along the path of a living brook that looked like Blake's illustration for a canal in grassy Eden: huge Pacific watery shore, Orlovsky dancing naked like Shiva long-haired before giant green waves, titanic cliffs that Wordsworth mentioned in his own Sublime, great yellow sun veiled with mist hanging over the planet's oceanic horizon. No harm."

Ginsberg, Allen on drugs
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"The best work never was and never will be done for money."

Ruskin, John on work
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"To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history."

Fadiman, Clifton on wine
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"Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken."

Card, Orson Scott on words
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"Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary."

Beaton, Sir Cecil on courage
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"Often the test of courage is not to die but to live."

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di on courage
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"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them. Disagree with them. Glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world
Are the ones who do."

Apple Computer on genius
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"Lord, let me live until I die."

Rogers, Will on famous last words
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"Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured and far away. It is not important that he should mature as soon as an apple tree or an oak."

Thoreau, Henry David on purpose
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"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."

Tagore, Rabindranath on adversity
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"But then they danced down the street like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!""

Kerouac, Jack on passion
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"I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg."

Barrie, Sir James M. on youth
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"All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual."

Balzac, Honore De on emotions
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