"Education is the progressive realization of our ignorance."

Einstein, Albert on education
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"Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything."

Lois, George on creativity
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"Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic -- a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us."

Wilde, Oscar on criticism   

"A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled."

Chandler, Raymond on story and story-telling   

"There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in."

Greene, Graham on childhood
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"People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading."

Smith, Logan Pearsall on books - reading
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"Dog. A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship."

Bierce, Ambrose on dogs
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"Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after."

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow on communication   

"It's not what your are, it's what you don't become that hurts."

Levant, Oscar on regret
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"Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee."

Proverb, Spanish on love
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"Neither man or nation can exist without a sublime idea."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on ideas
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"If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have."

Barrie, Sir James M. on love
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"To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes."

Rivarol, Antoine on reverie   

"Creativity comes from awakening and directing men's higher natures, which originate in the primal depths of the uni- verse and are appointed by Heaven."

I Ching on creativity   

"Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work."

Nicklaus, Jack on confidence
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"The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness."

Ellis, Havelock on obstacles
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"Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand."

Twain, Mark on laughter
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"All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible."

Faulkner, William on failure
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"The way out of trouble is never as simple as the way in."

Howe, Edgar Watson on trials
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"Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals."

Denham, Sir John on ambition
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"Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats."

Alcott, Amos Bronson on success
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"A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation."

Saadi on perseverance   

"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them."

Brodsky, Joseph on books - reading
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"Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought."

Hill, Napoleon on education
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"'Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected."

Lamb, Charles on friends and friendship
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"Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic -- if it is pulled out I shall die."

Kierkegaard, Søren on sorrow   

"In violence we forget who we are."

Mccarthy, Mary on violence
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"Never tell your story to a deaf man."

Proverb on listening
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"An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words."

Whitehead, Alfred North on experience
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"There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on difficulties
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"It destroys one's nerve to be amiable every day to the same human being."

Disraeli, Benjamin on marriage
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"Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on truth
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"To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature."

Fischer, Ernst on literature   

"All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others."

Butler, Samuel on philosophers and philosophy   

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"Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts."

Bennett, Arnold on change
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"Fat is a way of saying no to powerlessness and self-denial."

Orbach, Susie on obesity   

"Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on enthusiasm
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"No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on deception
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"Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful."

Beckett, Samuel on inertia   

"The word that is heard perishes, but the letter that is written remains."

Proverb on letters