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To sum it all up, if you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever… — Ray Bradbury
It turned out in the long run that Lincoln's credit and the popular confidence that supported it were as valuable both to his creditors and… — John George Nicolay
Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure - they can be turned into wisdom. — Cat Cora
I dreamed of Crusades, voyages of discovery that nobody had heard of, republics without histories, religious wars stamped out, revolutions in morals, movements of races… — Arthur Rimbaud
I've turned up to costume parties in the wrong costume. I've made social faux pas a plenty. I've put one foot in front of the… — Benedict Cumberbatch
Those of us who have tested gravity under a hoop know its mystical properties. Robin Layton, as I would have expected, has turned this staple… — George Vecsey
Ballet is completely unnatural to the body, just being turned out... it's not the way your body is supposed to function, so you actually train… — Neve Campbell
Many an individual has turned from the mean, personal, acquisitive point of view to one that sees society as a whole and works for its… — Mahatma Gandhi
Not till we are completely lost, or turned round, do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of Nature. — Henry David Thoreau
The Bible holds up before us ideals that are within sight of the weakest and the lowliest, and yet so high that the best and… — William Jennings Bryan
A mistake is an event, the full benefit of which has not yet been turned to your advantage. — Edwin Land
We need to be politically engaged, but peculiar in how we engage. Jesus and the early Christians had a marvelous political imagination. They turned all… — Shane Claiborne
When I started, they told me I only needed 3 chords and the truth... It turned out I could manage with 2 and some vague… — Joe Strummer
I'm grateful for every scar, some pages turned, some bridges burned, but there were lessons learned — Carrie Underwood
Very little changed fundamentally, except that the proud German soldier had turned into a defeated bundle of misery and the great German army had disintegrated. — George Grosz
I keep thinking of the gifts of my own upbringing, which I once took for granted: I can read any book I choose and comprehend… — Helen Prejean
Feminism without spirituality runs the risk of becoming what it rejects: an elitist ideology, arrogant, superficial and separatist, closed to everything but itself. Without a… — Joan D. Chittister
If I turned around every time somebody called me a faggot, I'd be walking backward - and I don't want to walk backward. — Harvey Milk
A coin is turned around before it is handed to the beggar, yet a child is unflinchingly tossed into cosmic bruteness. — Peter Wessel Zapffe
My time in the Obama administration turned out to be a deeply disillusioning experience. — Unknown Author
I pray that each one of us stays awake as we fall. I pray that we choose to go into the abyss willingly and that… — Elizabeth Lesser
As well as being blind, Ma turned out to have the same mental illness that her mother had had. Between 1986 and 1990, she suffered… — Liz Murray
Shortly after I turned 13, Child Welfare took me into care. I was sent to a residential centre where girls with behavioural problems were 'evaluated'.… — Liz Murray
Since childhood, I was afflicted with a sick hypersensitivity, and my imagination quickly turned everything into a memory, too quickly: sometimes one day was enough,… — Danilo Kis
Practicing yoga during the day is a matter of keeping your eyes on the road and one ear turned toward the infinite. — Erich Schiffmann

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