“ It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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“ What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. ”
- Joseph Addison- Copy
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“ Two men look out through the same bars; one sees the mud and one the stars. ”
- Frederick Langbridge- Copy
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“ The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future. ”
- Joel A. Barker- Copy
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“ We all choke, and the man who says he doesn't choke is lying like hell. We all leak oil. ”
- Lee Trevino- Copy
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“ If people don't want to go to the picture, nobody can stop them. Our comedies are not to be laughed at. ”
- Samuel Goldwyn- Copy
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“ One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it better. ”
- Cesare Pavese- Copy
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“ I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it. ”
- Igor Stravinsky- Copy
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“ Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. ”
- Philip K. Dick- Copy
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“ One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them. ”
- Georg C. Lichtenberg- Copy
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“ He has to increase his awareness a little bit, but he's pretty much an all-purpose guy,... He'll block. He'll catch. Hopefully he'll get a little better feel for the running as we go. ”
- Bill Parcells- Copy
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“ I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early. ”
- Daniel J. Boorstin- Copy
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“ Either it's going to be a great dunk or a great block,... I think statistics work in my favor. I don't like getting dunked on. ”
- Alonzo Mourning- Copy
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“ I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. "Never worry about your heart 'til it stops beating. ”
- E. B. White- Copy
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“ The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving. ”
- Russell Green- Copy
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“ Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field. ”
- Maya Lin- Copy
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“ A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is, but often prompts us to rearrange the past. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ What I can do is find the keys that will plug into my own 30 years of training in Buddhism, and find things that are parallel or resonant in the work that I have done. ”
- Richard Gere- Copy
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“ You know an odd feeling? Sitting on the toilet eating a chocolate candy bar. ”
- George Carlin- Copy
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“ It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning. ”
- Claude Bernard- Copy
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“ I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. ”
- Auguste Rodin- Copy
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“ Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. ”
- Isaac Asimov- Copy
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