"True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher."

Petit-Senn, John on courage
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"About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment."

Billings, Josh on plagiarism   

"The idea of thanking staff should mean giving them something that they would never buy for themselves."

Crook, Jayne on war   

"Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for."

Rogers, Will on government
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"No one asks you to throw Mozart out of the window. Keep Mozart. Cherish him. Keep Moses too, and Buddha and Lao Tzu and Christ. Keep them in your heart. But make room for the others, the coming ones, the ones who are already scratching on the window-panes."

Miller, Henry on innovation
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"The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."

Phillpotts, Eden on abundance
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"Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible."

Francis of Assisi, St. on impossibility
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"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love."

Lao-Tzu on kindness
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"Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed."

Caddy, Eileen on action
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"Seek always for the answer within. Be not influenced by those around you, by their thoughts or their words"

Caddy, Eileen on self-control
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"Here in the U.S., culture is not that delicious panacea which we Europeans consume in a sacramental mental space and which has its own special columns in the newspapers -- and in people's minds. Culture is space, speed, cinema, technology. This culture is authentic, if anything can be said to be authentic."

Baudrillard, Jean on culture   

"The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, culture. It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing art to defend their collapsing culture."

Grosz, George on culture   

"The State has but one face for me: that of the police. To my eyes, all of the State's ministries have this single face, and I cannot imagine the ministry of culture other than as the police of culture, with its prefect and commissioners."

Dubuffet, Jean on state   

"If everybody is looking for it, then nobody is finding it. If we were cultured, we would not be conscious of lacking culture. We would regard it as something natural and would not make so much fuss about it. And if we knew the real value of this word we would be cultured enough not to give it so much importance."

Picasso, Pablo on culture
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"A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand."

Butler, Samuel on culture   

"The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that tastes which pose only innocent ethical issues as the property of a minority become corrupting when they become more established. Taste is context, and the context has changed."

Sontag, Susan on taste   

"Take the world as it is, not as it ought to be."

Proverb, German on adaptability
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"Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on courage
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"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

Shaw, George Bernard on change
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"When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?"

Harris, Sidney J. on life
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"What is originality? Undetected plagiarism."

Inge, Dean William R. on plagiarism
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"Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness."

Reade, W. Winwood on imitation   

"Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on valor
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"Who wills the end, wills the means."

Proverb on power   

"Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."

Twain, Mark on death
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"Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come."

Hugo, Victor on ideas
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"True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable."

Gentry, David Tyson on friends and friendship
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"The worst solitude is to have no real friendships."

Bacon, Francis on friends and friendship
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"The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion."

Unknown, Source on happiness   

"The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on friends and friendship
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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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"Words are alive; cut them and they bleed."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on words
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"Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth."

Watts, Alan W. on identity
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"The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on men
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"The words of the world want to make sentences."

Bachelard, Gaston on words
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"Liberty has never come from government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it."

Wilson, Woodrow T. on liberty   

"Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,With conquering limbs astride from land to land;Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall standA mighty woman with a torch, whose flameIs the imprisoned lightning, and her nameMother of Exiles. From her beacon-handGlows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes commandThe air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame. Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp! cries sheWith silent lips. Give me your tired, your poor,Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

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"When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the elements, not an aspiration of the breeze, but hints some cause for a lover's apprehension."

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley on absence
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"The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them."

Cocteau, Jean on adversity
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"By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher."

Socrates on marriage
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