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Remember: Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations. Plot is… — Ray Bradbury
It is indeed immensely picturesque. I can fancy sitting all a summer's day watching its shadows shorten and lengthen again, and drawing a delicious contrast… — Henry James
The American Dream that has lured tens of millions of all nations to our shores in the past century has not been a dream of… — James Truslow Adams
The man who said 'I'd rather be lucky than good' saw deeply into life. People are afraid to face how great a part of life… — Woody Allen
I made an important decision, which was to pursue happiness. Rather than accept unhappiness. That's why I'm here, and it's great. I'm in a very… — Laura Marling
It is very certain that [the commerce clause] grew out of the abuse of the power by the importing States in taxing the non-importing, and… — James Madison
Most men with nothing would rather protect the possibility of becoming rich than face the reality of being poor. — John Dickinson
If I were hungry and friendless today, I would rather take my chances with a saloon-keeper than with the average preacher. — Eugene V. Debs
Cultivate simplicity or rather should I say banish elaborateness, for simplicity springs spontaneous from the heart. — Charles Lamb
Life is so much more rewarding if you strive for something, rather than take what's given to you on a plate. — Amy Winehouse
You didn't just pay lip service to the goal of overcoming the division of Europe and Germany... Rather, you put yourself at the forefront of… — Helmut Kohl
One ought not to encourage beggars, and yes, you are right, it is far better to donate to charities that address the causes of poverty… — Mohsin Hamid
I would rather be whole than good. — Carl Jung
There seems no intrinsic reason why everyone shouldn't be (self-actualising). Apparently every baby has possibilities for self-actualisation, but most get it knocked out of them… — Abraham Maslow
Most people see the problem of love primarily as that of being loved, rather than that of loving, of one's capacity to love. Hence the… — Erich Fromm
Equality today means ‘sameness’, rather than ‘oneness’. — Erich Fromm
The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected. — Viktor E. Frankl
Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life. — Viktor E. Frankl
People with high assurance in their capabilities approach difficult tasks as challenges to be mastered rather than as threats to be avoided. — Albert Bandura
The Revolution won't happen with guns, rather it will happen incrementally, year by year, generation by generation. We will gradually infiltrate their educational institutions and… — Max Horkheimer
The intellectual is called on the carpet... Don't you conceal something? You talk a language which is suspect. You don't talk like the rest of… — Herbert Marcuse
In no way can it be uttered, as can other things, which one can learn. Rather, from out of a full, co-existential dwelling with the… — Martin Heidegger
The problem is no longer getting people to express themselves, but providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something… — Gilles Deleuze
I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils. — Aeschylus
I have shed pewter tears! It is too melancholy! Rather let me go to the wars and lose arms and legs! It would at least… — Hans Christian Andersen

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