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A man who has once looked with the archaeological eye will never see quite normally. He will be wounded by what other…
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Some degree of withdrawal serves to nurture man's creative powers. The artist and the scientist bring out of the dark void, like…
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[On common water.] Its substance reaches everywhere; it touches the past and prepares the future; it moves under the poles and wanders…
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After chiding the theologian for his reliance on myth and miracle, science found itself in the unenviable position of having to create…
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It was the failures who had always won, but by the time they won they had come to be called successes.
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The freedom to create is somehow linked with facility of access to those obscure regions below the conscious mind.
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Modern man lives increasingly in the future and neglects the present.
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The future is neither ahead nor behind, on one side or another. Nor is it dark or light. It is contained within…
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Mind is locked in matter like the spirit Ariel in a cloven pine. Like Ariel, men struggle to escape the drag of…
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You think that way as you begin to get grayer and you see pretty plainly that the game is not going to…
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Man is dragged hither and thither, at one moment by the blind instincts of the forest, at the next by the strange…
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Man inhabits a realm half in and half out of nature, his mind reaching forever beyond the tool, the uniformity, the law,…
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What is the right of the huntsman to the forest of a thousand miles over which he has accidentally ranged in quest…
— John Quincy Adams
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Each famous author of antiquity whom I recover places a new offence and another cause of dishonor to the charge of earlier…
— Petrarch
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THESE are the desolate, dark weeks when nature in its barrenness equals the stupidity of man. The year plunges into night and…
— William Carlos Williams
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
— Socrates
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Men who have flattered themselves into this opinion of their own abilities, look down on all who waste their lives over books,…
— Samuel Johnson
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Hope changes everything. It changes winter into summer, darkness into dawn, descent into ascent, barrenness into creativity, agony into joy.
— Daisaku Ikeda
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There is but one thing without honor, smitten with eternal barrenness, inability to do or to be,-insincerity, unbelief.
— Thomas Carlyle
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The creative person prefers the richness of the disordered to the stark barrenness of the simple.
— Donald M. MacKinnon
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When the fire of prayer goes out, the barrenness of busyness takes over.
— George Carey
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The problem of birth control and voluntary barrenness is poisoning the very fountains of life and defying God's injunction to multiply and…
— Hugh B. Brown
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Failure to plan brings barrenness and sterility. Fate brushes man with its wings, but we make our own fate largely.
— Spencer W. Kimball
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He who resolves never to ransack any mind but his own, will be soon reduced, from mere barrenness, to the poorest of…
— Joshua Reynolds
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