"I think that words are often extraneous to…" — Howard Hodgkin

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• Creative activity is not a superimposed, extraneous task against which the body, or brain protests, but an orchestration of ...… — Gyorgy Kepes
• Suicidal thinking, if serious, can be a kind of death scare, comparable to suffering a heart attack or undergoing a… — Edward Hoagland
• It is not the accumulation of extraneous knowledge, but the realization of the self within, that constitutes true progress. — Okakura Kakuzo
• For God does not want to save us by our own but by an extraneous righteousness, one that does not… — Martin Luther
• Our lives are lived in intense and anxious struggle, in a swirl of speed and aggression, in competing, grasping, possessing… — Sogyal Rinpoche
• It is childish to rest in the discovery of mere coincidences, or of partial and extraneous laws. — Henry David Thoreau
• What's really important is to simplify. The work of most photographers would be improved immensely if they could do one… — William Albert Allard
• [T]he true key for the construction of everything doubtful in a law is the intention of the law-makers. This is… — Thomas Jefferson
• After puberty the personality develops impetuously and all extraneous intervention becomes odious.... Now it so happens that parents feel the… — Antonio Gramsci
• Once I went professionally to an archaeological expedition-and I learnt something there. In the course of an excavation, when something… — Agatha Christie
• I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be… — Adrienne Rich
• Perhaps ultimately, spiritual simply means experiencing wholeness and interconnectedness directly, a seeing that individuality and the totality are interwoven, that… — Jon Kabat-Zinn

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