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  1. Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. |
     
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    Love

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  2. 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.
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    Poetry

    #750

  3. In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. |
     
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    Life and Death

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  4. 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. |
     
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    Happiness

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  5. No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. |
     
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    Struggle, challenges and difficulties

    #747

  6. Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man. |
     
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    Mankind

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  7. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. |
     
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    Career

    #745

  8. Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. |
     
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    Creativity

    #744

  9. I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been. |
     
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    Career

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  10. Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt. |
     
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    Career

    #742

  11. If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair. |
     
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    Struggle, challenges and difficulties

    #741

  12. 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. |
     
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    Work

    #740

  13. The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers. |
     
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    Mankind

    #738

  14. We seek the love of others to have another reason to love ourselves. |
     
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    Love

    #737

  15. The more we love someone, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that true love shows itself. |
     
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    Love

    #736

  16. To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal. |
     
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    Love

    #735

  17. 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. |
     
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    Design

    #732

  18. Typographical design should perform optically what the speaker creates through voice and gesture of his thoughts. |
     
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    Design

    #730

  19. 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. |
     
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    Struggle, challenges and difficulties

    #726

  20. We don’t rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training. |
     
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    Struggle, challenges and difficulties

    #725

  21. 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. |
     
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    Struggle, challenges and difficulties

    #724

  22. I have only one thing to do:
    be the wave that I am and then
    sink back into the ocean.
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    Life and Death

    #723

  23. There is love in holding and there is love in letting go. |
     
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    Love

    #722

  24. It's only words... unless they're true. |
     
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    Writing & copywriting

    #721