A strange, terrific force unlike anything I've ever experienced is sprouting in my heart, taking root there, growing. Shut up behind my rib cage, my warm heart expands and contracts independent of my will, over and over. ~Haruki Murakami
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Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies. ~Spanish Proverb
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The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists. ~Japanese Proverb
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Man unites himself with the world in the process of creation. ~Erich Fromm
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Certainly my parents were a huge influence. They always expected the most out of all of us. And expected us to do our very best. I'm thankful to them for allowing me to do what I wanted to do. ~Laurel Clark
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If you want something done well, do it yourself. ~English Proverb
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As project chief you are creating a narrative, a story, a good yarn. If you look at the process-journey that way, you and your gang will ... dramatically up the odds of a wow outcome! ~Tom Peters
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Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being. ~Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need. ~Gaston Bachelard
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People see you sing in a certain way, in a long dress, and you are put on a pedestal like you have never made a mistake in your life. ~Katherine Jenkins
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A son is a son till he gets him a wife, but a daughter is a daughter the rest of your life. ~Proverb
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You must create your own world. I am responsible for my world. ~Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
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Never tell anyone to go to hell unless you can make 'em go. ~William J. Clinton
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To tell a woman everything she may not do is to tell her what she can do. ~Spanish Proverb
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The representational-image urge is actually a kind of heightened perception, and I don't stop to think. I don't freeze up, it's actually a kind of letting-go. It's like dancing. At a certain point it's conscious, unconscious, everything is kind of coming together. ~Michael Light
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Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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A penny saved is a penny earned. ~English Proverb
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The apparent world, the one which is perceived, with its figures, its brightness, its colors, is a psychical product, a creation of the observer. The figures seen on the vault of heaven are neither the celestial bodies, nor the true clouds or the falling stars, but are only effigies which the observer's psyche has created and localized how and where it can. ~Vasco Ronchi
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Act in the valley so that you need not fear those who stand on the hill. ~Danish Proverb
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Laughter is God's hand on a troubled world. ~English Proverb
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Taste it and you will get a desire for it. ~Irish Proverb
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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. ~African Proverb
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The sermon is now the true poppy of literature. ~David Swing
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There is one catagory of advertising which is totally uncontrolled and flagrantly dishonest: the television commercials for candidates in Presidential elections. ~David Ogilvy
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The way I look at it is that once you create a piece of art, and it's out in the world, there's nothing you can do about it. People can use it the way they want to. There's nothing you can do about it. All you can hope for is that people that are using it are using it with the best intent. ~David Lloyd
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