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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "Every artist was first an amateur."

Every artist was first an amateur.

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Why one writes is a question I can answer easily, having so often asked it of myself. I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live. I could not live in any of the worlds offered to me? the world of my parents, the world of war, the world of politics. I had to create a world of my own, like a climate, a country, an atmosphere in which I could breathe, reign, and recreate myself when destroyed by living. That, I believe, is the reason for every work of art. Anais Nin
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Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience. Paulo Coelho
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We owe it to the flood victims of New Orleans to give them truthful answers as to why this event took place and to assure our citizens that tragedies like this will never happen again. Charles Rangel
I do support a constitutional amendment on marriage between a man and a woman, but I would not be going into the states to overturn their state law. Michele Bachmann
An enlightened trust in the sovereignty of human reason can be every bit as magical as the exploits of Merlin, and a faith in our capacity for limitless self-improvement just as much a wide-eyed superstition as a faith in leprechauns. Terry Eagleton
But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That's what I strive to do, that's what I pray to do every day. Barack Obama
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Steven Adler quote: "Loud is a way of life."
Loud is a way of life. Steven Adler
Superficially so like them all, and so eager to outdo them in detachment and adaptability, ridiculing the prejudices he had shaken off, and the people to whom he belonged, he still kept, under his easy pliancy, the skeleton of old faiths and old fashions. "He talks every language as well as the rest of us," Susy had once said of him, "but at least he talks one language better than the others. Edith Wharton