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No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made… — Alan Watts
More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a… — Simone Weil
Criticism - however valid or intellectually engaging - tends to get in the way of a writer who has anything personal to say. A tightrope… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Through the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between moments of valid inspiration. — Steve Martin
Scientists have power by virtue of the respect commanded by the discipline... We live with poets and politicians, preachers and philosophers. All have their ways… — Stephen Jay Gould
So I should be aware of the dangers of self-consciousness, but at the same time, Iâ€™ll be plowing through the fog of all these echoes,… — Dave Eggers
Let children learn about different faiths, let them notice their incompatibility, and let them draw their own conclusions about the consequences of that incompatibility. As… — Richard Dawkins
The most serious point in the case is the disposition of the child." What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. My… — Arthur Conan Doyle
I'm not...' Angharad began, but then she thought. Not what? Not a bad person? Perhaps. But had she never known anger? Never held unkind thoughts?… — Charles de Lint
Any excuse for non-performance, no matter how valid, weakens character. — Spencer W. Kimball
There is no other definition of socialism valid for us than that of the abolition of the exploitation of man by man. — Che Guevara
Any excuse, no matter how valid, only weakens the character. — Thomas S. Monson
I am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just like a fish is. I have a right to be this way...I… — Alice Walker
Since we must and do write each our own way, we may during actual writing get more lasting instruction not from another's work, whatever its… — Eudora Welty
There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an achievement does not settle anything permanently. We still have… — Eric Hoffer
Truly fine poetry must be read aloud. A good poem does not allow itself to be read in a low voice or silently. If we… — Jorge Luis Borges
Rule: Start by looking for what is valid in every man. — Albert Camus
On the Bigotry of Culture: : it presented us with culture, with thought as something justified in itself, that is, which requires no justification but… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Iâ€™m a false icon! The media collaborate in promoting my superficial lifestyle as somehow more valid, more worthy of attention than your real lives! -… — Grant Morrison
None of us has ever seen a motive. Therefore, we don't know we can't do anything more than suspect what inspires the action of another.… — Brennan Manning

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