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There were profound reasons for his attachment to the sea: he loved it because as a hardworking artist he needed rest, needed to escape from… — Thomas Mann
When you write, itâ€™s like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring them unity. Your fingers have still… — Edwidge Danticat
Any weapon touched by a woman, even by accident, must be cleansed with both water and prayer so that her essence would not linger, diverting… — Alice Hoffman
People underestimate the importance of dilligence as a virtue. No doubt it has something to do with how supremely mundane it seems. It is defined… — Atul Gawande
All fiction is a process of imagining: whatever you write, in whatever genre or medium, your task is to make things up convincingly and interestingly… — Neil Gaiman
Every creative person, and I think probably every other person, faces resistance when they are trying to create something good...The harder the resistance, the more… — Donald Miller
Nothing fails like successâ€”because the self-imposed task of our society and all its members is a contradiction: to force things to happen which are acceptable… — Alan Watts
School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances,… — H. L. Mencken
The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task. — Andre Gide
Conventions vs. spontaneity. This is a dialectical choice, it depends on the assessment you make of your own times. If you judge that your own… — Susan Sontag
Attention, must be devoted principally to raising the workers to the level of revolutionaries; it is not our task to descend to the level of… — Vladimir Lenin
She strived for perfection. She loved setting herself tasks, sometimes impossible ones, to prove to her heart that underneath every seemingly ugly thing there was… — Cecelia Ahern
Men... performed better when they understood why they were being asked to carry out a task. — John Flanagan
Taxation, gentlemen, is very much like dairy farming. The task is to extract the maximum amount of milk with the minimum amount of moo. — Terry Pratchett
He was decisive and wholehearted in everything he did, so intent non the task at hand that he never looked over his shoulder, even if… — Karen Armstrong
Law itself is either suspended, or regarded as an instrument that the state may use in the service of constraining and monitoring a given population;… — Judith Butler
It needs more than ever to be stressed that the best and truest educators are parents under God. The greatest school is the family. In… — R.J. Rushdoony
The intelligent poor individual was a much finer observer than the intelligent rich one. The poor individual looks around him at every step, listens suspiciously… — Knut Hamsun
How will the ships navigate without stars? And then he remembered that the stars were dead, long dead, and the light they shed was not… — Jeet Thayil
That propaganda is good which leads to success, and that is bad which fails to achieve the desired result. It is not propagandaâ€™s task to… — Joseph Goebbels

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