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Alexander Pope
He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
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Abraham Lincoln
The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
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German proverb
The eyes believe themselves the ears believe other people.
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Holly Lisle, Fire In The Mist, 1992
The only place you will be accepted is the place you make for yourself.
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Robert J. Collier
You have to sow before you can reap. You have to give before you can get.
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Erica Jong
I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me. I have accepted fear as a part of life--specifically the fear of change, the fear of the unknown and I have gone ahead despite the pounding in my heart that says turn back, turn back, you'll die if you venture too far.
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Katherine Patterson, Jacob Have I Loved
To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.
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Truman Capote
I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.
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Aeschylus
It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas.
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Jacques Martin Barzun
In producers, loafing is productive and no creator, of whatever magnitude, has ever been able to skip that stage, any more than a mother can skip gestation.
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Molly Haskell
But one of the attributes of love, like art, is to bring harmony and order out of chaos, to introduce meaning and affect where before there was none, to give rhythmic variations, highs and lows to a landscape that was previously flat.
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