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We must learn by experience to avoid either trains of thought or social situations which for us (not necessarily for everyone) lead to temptations. Like… — C.S. Lewis
To entrust to an editor a story over which you have labored and to which your name and reputation are attached can be like sending… — Edna Buchanan
If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth. — Dmitri Shostakovich
People can't imagine an enemy that would cut someone's head off before a video camera and spread it out across the world. But that has… — Kay Bailey Hutchison
You that in far-off countries of the sky can dwell secure, look back upon me here; for I am weary of this frail world's decay. — Murasaki Shikibu
If I hung one of my paintings next to someone else's, I knew mine would kind of pop off the wall. — Julian Schnabel
Politicians are forever coming up with 'solutions' to virtually every imaginable imperfection in life. But, if we give them more power and more of our… — Thomas Sowell
...what I feel we ought to do at this juncture is to dash off somewhere where it's quiet and there aren't so many housesdancing the… — P.G. Wodehouse
To do this, you can bring in nothing from the past. So the more psychology you've studied, the harder it will be to empathize. The… — Marshall B. Rosenberg
If you think ahead to what to say next - like how to fix it or make the person feel better - BOOM! Off the… — Marshall B. Rosenberg
Empathy occurs when we suspend our single-minded focus of attention and instead adopt a double-minded foucus of attention. When our attention lapses into single focus,… — Simon Baron-Cohen
Many love music but for music's sake, Many because her touches can awake Thoughts that repose within the breast half-dead, And rise to follow where… — Walter Savage Landor
It's going to be like herding stray cats, and the political leaders who can do it will be remembered as the same kind of geniuses… — William H. Calvin
About one thing the Englishman has a particularly strict code. If a bird says Cluk bik bik bik bik and caw you may kill it,… — Clement Freud
There is a silence that matches our best possibilities when we have learned to listen to others. We can master the art of being quiet… — Eugene Kennedy
When they turned off, it was still early in the pink and green fields. The fumes of morning, sweet and bitter, sprang up where they… — Eudora Welty
All singers have this fault: if asked to sing among friends they are never so inclined; if unasked, they never leave off. — Horace
He'd be better off shoveling snow. — Richard Strauss
I freak out if I go a little too long without being in the gym. For a long time it was all about getting the… — Nick Carter
I never hang my feet off the end of the bed -I'm afraid little gremlins will bite my toes! Really! — Nick Carter

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