"All profoundly original art looks ugly at first."

Greenberg, Clement on originality
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"Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it."

Peter, Laurence J. on originality   

"The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique."

Singer, Isaac Bashevis on originality   

"Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty."

Simmons, Charles on accuracy
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"Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood."

Edwards, Tryon on accuracy
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"To possess your soul in patience, with all the skin and some of the flesh burnt off your face and hands, is a job for a boy compared with the pains of a man who has lived pretty long in the exhilarating world that drugs or strong waters seem to create and is trying to live now in the first bald desolation created by knocking them off."

Montague, C. E. on addiction
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"It is not I who become addicted, it is my body."

Cocteau, Jean on addiction
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"It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts."

Chisholm, Shirley Anita on addiction
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"Never give advice unless asked."

Proverb, German on advice
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"The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it."

Hemingway, Ernest on writers and writing
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"Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction."

Stevenson, Adlai E. on accuracy
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"One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them."

Woolf, Virginia on adulthood   

"Architecture worth great attention. As we double our numbers every 20 years we must double our houses. Besides we build of such perishable materials that one half of our houses must be rebuilt in every space of 20 years. So that in that term, houses are to be built for three fourths of our inhabitants. It is then among the most important arts: and it is desireable to introduce taste into an art which shews so much. "

Jefferson, Thomas on uncategorised   

"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. "

Jefferson, Thomas on uncategorised
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"Yet where does this anarchy exist? Where did it ever exist, except in the single instance of Massachusets? And can history produce an instance of a rebellion so honourably conducted? God forbid we should ever be 20. years without such a rebellion. The people can not be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. "

Jefferson, Thomas on uncategorised   

"I, however, place economy among the first and most important of republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared. "

Jefferson, Thomas on uncategorised
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"I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our constitution. I would be willing to depend on that alone for the reduction of the administration of our government to the genuine principles of its constitution; I mean an additional article, taking from the federal government the power of borrowing. "

Jefferson, Thomas on uncategorised
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"In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution. "

Jefferson, Thomas on uncategorised   

"Peace, commerce, and honest friendship, with all nationsentangling alliances with none. "

Jefferson, Thomas on uncategorised   

"I have come to a resolution myself as I hope every good citizen will, never again to purchase any article of foreign manufacture which can be had of American make be the difference of price what it may. "

Jefferson, Thomas on uncategorised
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"A good listener tries to understand what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but because he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with."

Wells, Kenneth A. on listening
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"We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of the Americans."

Askew, Ruben on america
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"America fears the unshaven legs, the unshaven men's cheeks, the aroma of perspiration, and the limp prick. Above all it fears the limp prick."

Abish, Walter on america
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"Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them."

Freud, Sigmund on children
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"Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one."

Freud, Sigmund on belief
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"A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror."

Freud, Sigmund on self-esteem
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"By abolishing private property one takes away the human love of aggression."

Freud, Sigmund on property   

"The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness."

Freud, Sigmund on mind
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"The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization."

Freud, Sigmund on liberty   

"When you teach your son, you teach your son's son."

Talmud, The on parents and parenting   

"This is the punishment of a liar: he is not believed, even when he speaks the truth."

Talmud, The on lies and lying   

"Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes."

Talmud, The on friends and friendship   

"Debt is the worst poverty."

Fuller, Thomas on debt
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"Good clothes open all doors."

Fuller, Thomas on dress   

"A man is not good or bad for one action."

Fuller, Thomas on judgment and judges
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"If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too."

Fuller, Thomas on greed
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"A good friend is my nearest relation."

Fuller, Thomas on friends and friendship   

"Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love."

Fuller, Thomas on friends and friendship   

"If you have one true friend you have more than your share."

Fuller, Thomas on friends and friendship
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"Bad excuses are worse than none."

Fuller, Thomas on excuses