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Oh, I am heartily tired of hearing about what Lee is going to do. Some of you always seem to think he is suddenly going… — Ulysses S. Grant
What use are cartridges in battle? I always carry chocolate instead. — George Bernard Shaw
Probably my English teacher because she got me into writing instead of just answering the question. I used to hand in homework with 20 pages… — Robert Pattinson
Youth, enthusiasm, and tenderness are like the days of spring. Instead of complaining, O my heart, of their brief duration, try to enjoy them. — Friedrich Ruckert
Today [the voice of women] is being heard loud and clear. But I do not read the welcome triumph of feminism, social, economic, and creative,… — E. O. Wilson
It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very… — Charlie Munger
Too often it's not the most creative guys or the smartest. Instead, it's the ones who are best at playing politics and soft-soaping their bosses.… — Carl Icahn
A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you. — Joyce Meyer
It's very encouraging to see the structural changes that the RNC has made this past year in engaging communities on the ground. Recognizing that the… — S. E. Cupp
From where I sit, battles are hard. I've written my share. Sometimes I employ the private's viewpoint, very up close and personal, dropping the reader… — George R. R. Martin
Drama, instead of telling us the whole of a man's life, must place him in such a situation, tie such a knot, that when it… — Leo Tolstoy
The solution to a problem - a story that you are unable to finish - is the problem. It isn't as if the problem is… — Susan Sontag
For me, writing is the only thing that passes the three tests of metier: (1) when I'm doing it, I don't feel that I should… — Gloria Steinem
Passion mutates into procedures, into rules and roles. Instead of purpose, we focus on policies. Instead of being free to create, we impose constraints that… — Margaret J. Wheatley
Pretty much everyone I know, no matter what size, is trying some system. Even when someone gets to looking like she should be so proud… — Melissa McCarthy
I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it,… — Diane Arbus
"Only with effort can the camera be forced to lie: basically it is an honest medium: so the photographer is much more likely to approach… — Edward Weston
The fact is that relatively few photographers ever master their medium. Instead they allow the medium to master them and go on an endless squirrel… — Edward Weston
The camera is not only an extension of the eye but of the brain. It can see sharper, farther, nearer, slower, faster than the eye.… — Wynn Bullock
Too many photographers try too hard. They try to lift photography into the realm of Art, because they have an inferiority complex about their craft.… — Jessie Tarbox Beals

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