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Albert Einstein
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
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William Shakespeare
Our bodies are our gardens to which our wills are gardeners.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
To write it, it took three months; to conceive it – three minutes; to collect the data in it – all my life.
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Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, Scene 3
To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
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Bertrand Russell
A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.
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Judy Garland
Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else.
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Lyndon B. Johnson
What we won when all of our people united ... must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. ... Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.
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Saying Folk
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig.
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Philip Adams
It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.
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Ovid
Tears at times have all the weight of speech.
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John Quincy Adams, last words, 21 February 1848.
This is the last of earth! I am content.
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Marguerite de Valois
Science conducts us, step by step, through the whole range of creation, until we arrive, at length, at God.
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