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And yet self-knowledge is thought by some not so easy. Who knows, my dear sir, but for a time you may have taken yourself for… — Herman Melville
You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the other is, you… — George Eliot
If the liberal arts do nothing else they provide engaging metaphors for the thinking they displace. — Roger Zelazny
Sin is cruelty and injustice, all else is peccadillo. Oh, a sense of sin comes from violating the customs of your tribe. But breaking custom… — Robert A. Heinlein
There comes a time in the life of every human when he or she must decide to risk â€˜his life, his fortune and his sacred… — Robert A. Heinlein
There is no one that can share your responsibility. It it is your responsibility you must carry it on and you must be responsible for… — Garry Kasparov
Dull, inert cities, it is true, do contain the seeds of their own destruction and little else. But lively, diverse, intense cities contain the seeds… — Jane Jacobs
It may be that we have become so feckless as a people that we no longer care how things do work, but only what kind… — Jane Jacobs
I want to fall in love with something in the way I fell in love with the idea of Harry before I write anything else. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Well I think it is often the case that the biggest bullies take what they know to be their own defects, as they see it,… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timbers to protect a… — Brian Aldiss
What else can the young be? When you are on the bottom, you must organize from the bottom up — Ursula K. Le Guin
It was really hurtful to me. I get so much mail from young girls who say, 'I look up to you, you're not as skinny… — Tyra Banks
Do not many of us who fail to achieve big things. . .fail because we lack concentration--the art of concentrating the mind on the thing… — John D. Rockefeller
There is no feeling in this world to be compared with self-reliance--do not sacrifice that to anything else. — John D. Rockefeller
It's about the connecting force from form to form. It's the toe bone connecting to the shoulder bone. It's the bacterial kick of life force,… — Ali Smith
Not only am I trying to be a daddy, but also a friend, not be the old fogey thats slowing everybody else down... not for… — Josh Turner
There is a place that you are to fill and no one else can fill, something you are to do, which no one else can… — Florence Scovel Shinn
My life is music, and in some vague, mysterious and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled… — Stan Getz
Having an eye patch actually makes it easier to look through a camera - I don't have to close one eye like everyone else. — Brian Selznick

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