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The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases.

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A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail. Paul Wellstone
Rene Descartes quote: "Cogito ergo sum. (I think, therefore I am.)"
Cogito ergo sum. (I think, therefore I am.) Rene Descartes
It is not that I do not get angry. I don't give vent to my anger. I cultivate the quality of patience as angerlessness, and generally speaking, I succeed. But I only control my anger when it comes. How I find it possible to control it would be a useless question, for it is a habit that everyone must cultivate and must succeed in forming by constant practice. Mahatma Gandhi
When we seek daily spiritual guidance, we are guided toward the next step forward for our art. Sometimes the step is very small. Sometimes the step is, "Wait. Not now." Sometimes the step is, "Work on something else for a while." When we are open to Divine Guidance, we will receive it. It will come to us as the hunch, the inkling, the itch. It will come to us as timely conversations with others. It will come to us in many ways--but it will come. Julia Cameron
Alyosha brought with him something his father had never known before: a complete absence of contempt for him and a consistent kindness, a perfectly natural, unaffected devotion to the old man who deserved so little. Fyodor Dostoevsky
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It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past. Aldous Huxley
You've got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you've got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote. Lyndon B. Johnson
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I've had quarter horses for the last 18 years. Bruce Boxleitner
Charlotte Bronte quote: "I mean that I value vision, and dread being struck stone blind."
I mean that I value vision, and dread being struck stone blind. Charlotte Bronte
We sat down and told stories that happened to us in our childhood, to our children. They were all basically based on the truth. These stories were funny and poignant to us. They just took off. These are all stories from my life. Howie Mandel
I've never been able to understand 'faith' myself, nor to see how a just God could expect his creatures to pick the one true religion out of an infinitude of false ones - by faith alone. It strikes me as a sloppy way to run an organization, whether universe or a smaller one. Robert A. Heinlein
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I love vintage, but it's so expensive now. Alexandra Roach
William Hague quote: "I don't think my principles change. I think the way in which..."
I don't think my principles change. I think the way in which you apply those principles to modern society changes. William Hague
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass. Ann Landers
Later on when it became a routine it was not as exciting I'll admit that. The first three years were wonderful, the rest were just money making and having fun. Larry Hagman