“ Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us; our hour of triumph is what brings the void. ”
- William James- Copy
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“ Happiness... it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. ”
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt- Copy
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“ Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature. ”
- William Cowper- Copy
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“ Beauty is worse than wine: it intoxicates both the holder and beholder. ”
- Immermann- Copy
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“ A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: there shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
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“ The blood more stirs To rouse a lion than to start a hare! - King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 3. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ All hell shall stir for this. - King Henry V. Act v. Sc. 1. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Beauty is worse than wine; it intoxicates both the holder and the beholder. ”
- Aldous Huxley- Copy
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“ A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion, strong enough to arouse our fear, human enough to awaken some transient gleam of sympathy. We must triumph in his downfall, yet not barbarously nor with contempt, and the close of his career must be in harmony with all its previous development. ”
- Agnes Repplier- Copy
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“ The boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on good will. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says "I"; The leader says "WE". The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown… ”
- Harry Gordon Selfridge- Copy
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“ It's a thrill to be on Columbia Records. Columbia has been home to a lot of my favorite artists — like Bob Dylan, Miles Davis, and Bruce Springsteen — and it feels great to be working with people who really understand what I'm trying to do and allow me the freedom to go in new musical directions… ”
- Trey Anastasio- Copy
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“ Explain it as we may, a martial strain will urge a man into the front rank of battle sooner than an argument, and a fine anthem excite his devotion more certainly than a logical discourse. ”
- Henry Tuckerman- Copy
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“ I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents. ”
- Sir Winston Churchill- Copy
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“ The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor, who are often both driven by want, and prompted by envy, to invade his possessions. ”
- Adam Smith- Copy
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“ Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. ”
- Edgar Allan Poe- Copy
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“ But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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“ By common consent, gray hairs are a crown of glory: the only object of respect that can never excite envy. ”
- George Bancroft- Copy
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“ Change excites me. I am fifty years old. It's when the mind catches up with the body. ”
- Raquel Welch- Copy
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“ In the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people there comes a time when every act of the authorities exasperates the masses, and every refusal to act excites their contempt. ”
- John Reed- Copy
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“ It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom. ”
- Wallace Stevens- Copy
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“ Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment. ”
- Charles Lamb- Copy
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“ Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
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“ The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
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“ The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it. ”
- Orson Welles- Copy
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“ The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ”
- Elizabeth Hardwick- Copy
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