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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. |
– Robert Frost
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These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep. |– Robert Frost
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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. |
– Robert Frost
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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for. |
– Tom Bodett
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No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. |
– Henry Adams
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Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man. |
– Henry Adams
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A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. |
– Henry Adams
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Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. |
– Henry Adams
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I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been. |
– Wayne Gretzky
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Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt. |
– Shirley Chisholm
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If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair. |
– Shirley Chisholm
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You have to utilize who you are in your work. Nobody else can do that: nobody else can pull from your background, from your parents, your upbringing, your whole life experience. |
– David Carson
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The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers. |
– Denis Diderot
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We seek the love of others to have another reason to love ourselves. |
– Denis Diderot
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The more we love someone, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that true love shows itself. |
– Molière
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To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal. |
– John Berger
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You can fix it now on the drafting board with an eraser or you can fix it later on the construction site with a sledge hammer. |
– Frank Lloyd Wright
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Typographical design should perform optically what the speaker creates through voice and gesture of his thoughts. |
– El Lissitzky
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Be brave, my heart. Plant your feet and square your shoulders to the enemy. Meet him among the man-killing spears. Hold your ground. In victory, do not brag; in defeat, do not weep. |
– Archilochus
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We don’t rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training. |
– Archilochus
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No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. |
– Shirley Jackson
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I have only one thing to do:
be the wave that I am and then
sink back into the ocean. |– Fiona Apple
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There is love in holding and there is love in letting go. |
– Elizabeth Berg
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It's only words... unless they're true. |
– David Mamet
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