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I still occasionally need to struggle but I now fear it less. The weapons I fight it with are also my consolations: books, music, food,… — P.D. James
People have less privacy and are crammed together in cities, but in the wide open spaces they secretly keep tabs on each other a lot… — Sara Paretsky
That was one of the things that worried me â€“ to be raised to the position of a semi-god â€“ because then you are no… — Nelson Mandela
I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves of fashion which… — Pablo Picasso
Doubting pleases me no less than knowing — Dante Alighieri
In general, I think, less is more, and that if a reader stops reading because a book is too icky then I've failed in my… — Jeffery Deaver
The difficulties in the study of the infinite arise because we attempt, with our finite minds, to discuss the infinite, assigning to it those properties… — Galileo Galilei
It has been found that the less an advertisement looks like an advertisement and the more it looks like an editorial, the more readers stop,… — David Ogilvy
He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
An erudite is someone who displays less than he knows; a journalist or consultant the opposite. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
To become a chess grandmaster also seems to take about ten years. (Only the legendary Bobby Fisher got to that elite level in less than… — Malcolm Gladwell
Our best evidence of what people truly feel and believe comes less from their words than from their deeds. — Robert Cialdini
When we have an experience -- hearing a particular sonata, making love with a particular person, watching the sun set from a particular window of… — Daniel Gilbert
The great ages did not perhaps produce much more talent than ours,' [T.S.] Eliot wrote. 'But less talent was wasted. — Jonah Lehrer
The vocational approach at NOCCA (New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts) helps build grit in students. It teaches them how to be single-minded in… — Jonah Lehrer
Even in a less exaggerated description, any verbal account of a person is bound to find itself employing an assortment of waterfalls, lightning rods, landscapes,… — Sergei Eisenstein
A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an… — Walter Pater
Its easy to like the most popular films, but I have a great fondness for A Life Less Ordinary. — Danny Boyle
The religion of the short poem, in every age and in every literature, has a single commandment: Less is always more. The short poem rejects… — Charles Simic
Each one of us will travel a different road during this life. Each progresses at a different rate. Temptations that trouble your brother may not… — Joseph B. Wirthlin

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