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I blame myself for not often enough seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary. Somewhere in his journals, Dostoyevky remarks that a writer can begin anywhere,… — Saul Bellow
Once upon a time I was falling in love, now I'm only falling apart. — Bonnie Tyler
Only the two of us together flying high upon the wings of love. — Jeffrey Osborne
Sooner or later a democracy which is to survive has to be able to rely upon that enlargement of vision and purpose of those individuals… — Ordway Tead
When we begin to understand the magnitude of [the Messiah's] sacrifice and service to us individually and collectively, we then cannot consider anything else to… — Cecil O. Samuelson
We have made covenants so to do solemn, sacred, holy covenants, pledging ourselves before gods and angels. We are under covenant to live the law… — Bruce R. McConkie
The intensive use of photographs by mass media lays ever fresh responsibilities upon the photographer. We have to acknowledge the existence of a chasm between… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
I consider chess an art, and accept all those responsibilities which art places upon its devotees. — Alexander Alekhine
There is no remorse like a remorse of chess. It is a curse upon man. There is no happiness in chess. — H.G. Wells
The passion for playing chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world. It slaps the theory of natural selection in the face. It… — H.G. Wells
You can't think and play. If you think about what you're playing the playing becomes stilted. You have to just focus on the music I… — Joe Pass
Light is my inspiration, my paint and brush. It is as vital as the model herself. Profoundly significant, it caresses the essential superlative curves and… — Ruth Bernhard
A portrait photographer depends upon another person to complete his picture. The subject imagined, which in a sense is me, must be discovered in someone… — Richard Avedon
It's my opinion that a manager must have the right to manage and that clubs should not impose upon any manager any player that he… — Kevin Keegan
The photograph isolates and perpetuates a moment of time: an important and revealing moment, or an unimportant and meaningless one, depending upon the photographer's understanding… — Edward Weston
Outstanding past work in photography, and in fact in all the arts, is very important to today's photographers. But it should be used for inspiration… — Alexey Brodovitch
The provision of the Constitution giving the war making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons: Kings had always… — Abraham Lincoln
The freedom of a government does not depend on the quality of its laws, but upon the power that has the right to create them. — Thaddeus Stevens
As long as men inquire, they will find opportunities to know more upon these topics than those who have gone before them, so inexhaustibly rich… — Louis Agassiz
Man's home is nature; his purposes and aims are dependent for execution upon natural conditions. Separated from such conditions they become empty dreams and idle… — John Dewey
Nature . . . is inexorable and immutable; she never transgresses the laws imposed upon her, nor cares a whit whether her abstruse reasons and… — Galileo Galilei
Nature! We live in her midst and know her not. She is incessantly speaking to us, but betrays not her secret. We constantly act upon… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The history of science teaches only too plainly the lesson that no single method is absolutely to be relied upon, that sources of error lurk… — John William Strutt
Madame Curie didn't stumble upon radium by accident. She searched and experimented and sweated and suffered years before she found it. Success rarely is an… — B. C. Forbes
I saw deep in the eyes of the animals, the human soul look out upon me. — Edward Carpenter

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