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But when you're in front of an audience and you make them laugh at a new idea, you're guiding the wh...

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After all, people may really have in them some vocation which is not quite plain to themselves, may ...

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We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printe...

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Never pupil was more humble, never pupil more obedient; thinking nothing of himself or of anything h...

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There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mi...

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The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the econ...

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Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before i...

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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, b...

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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

The lotus is the most beautiful flower, whose petals open one by one. But it will only grow in the m...

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A truly educated man never ceases to learn. He never ceases to grow. I hope you women, as you take u...

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Gordon B. HinckleyLDS Gems and Inspiration Quotes

We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, ...

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They swore by concrete. They built for eternity.

We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.

Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can i...

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I meet so many that think population growth is a major problem in regard to climate change. But the ...

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If somebody tells you a rule, break it. That's the only way to move things forward.

If somebody tells you a rule, break it. That's the only thing to move things forward.

The journey I'm taking is inside me. Just like blood travels down veins, what I'm seeing is my inner...

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Living like an empty shell is not really living, no matter how many years it might go on

The way surviving hard winters makes a tree grows stronger, the growth rings inside it tighter

It's confusing when people who do not know me say they miss the old me. You know me merely through t...

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It is not that we love to be alone, but that we love to soar, and when we do soar, the company grows...

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All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.

India is a vibrant nation whose strength lies in its commitment to equal rights and to speech, relig...

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Economic growth and environmental protection are not at odds. They're opposite sides of the same coi...

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It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries in life.

The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the grow...

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There is no steady unretracing progress in this life; we do not advance through fixed gradations, an...

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Voll Blüten steht der Pfirsichbaum nicht jede wächst zur Frucht sie schimmern hell wie Rosenschaum d...

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Hermann HesseBäume. Betrachtungen und Gedichte

I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no longer s...

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Hermann HesseDemian. Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

Not everyone is allotted the chance to become a personality; most remain types, and never experience...

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Hermann HesseSoul of the Age: Selected Letters

To reap a return in ten years, plant trees. To reap a return in 100, cultivate the people.

Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It woul...

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We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday...

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Hunter S. ThompsonThe Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman

But you can live in the most democratic country on earth, and if you're lazy, obtuse or servile with...

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[A man] finds in himself a talent which with the help of some culture might make him a useful man in...

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Immanuel KantFundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals

I class the principle of moral feeling under that of happiness, because every empirical interest pro...

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Immanuel KantFundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals: & the Metaphysical Elements of Ethics

But very few ordeals are redemptive and I doubt if the descent into hell teaches anything new. It ca...

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Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet; in an environment equally fit ...

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Wherever the shadow of economic growth touches us, we are left useless unless employed on a job or e...

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Ivan IllichThe Right to Useful Unemployment and Its Professional Enemies

Let us never measure our religion by that of others, and think we are doing enough if we have gone b...

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I urge you: don't cut short these thought-trains of yours. Follow them through to their end. Your th...

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The little flowers grew everywhere around the rocks, and no one had asked them to grow, or me to gro...

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Everything we do these days - our lust for ever more comfort, pleasure, and distraction, our refusal...

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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

She formed her life day by day, taking as its materials the emptiness and panic as well as the rushe...

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I'm tired of my life, my clothes, the things I say. I'm hacking away at the surface, as at some kind...

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James SalterMemorable Days: The Selected Letters of James Salter and Robert Phelps

Marianne could never love by halves; and her whole heart became, in time, as much devoted to her hus...

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plantitIt will sproutBut forget about the rustic festivitiesFor the explosive word falls harmlessly ...

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Jean CocteauLe Cap De Bonne Esperance Suivi De Discours du Grand Sommeil

People do go back, but they don't survive, because two realities are claiming them at the same time....

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If I can't stay where I am, and I can't, then I will put all that I can into the going.

Going back after a long time will make you mad, because the people you left behind do not like to th...

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Jeanette WintersonOranges Are Not the Only Fruit

I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues ...

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Jeanette WintersonOranges Are Not the Only Fruit

There's a chance that I'm not here at all, that all the parts of me, running along all the choices I...

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Jeanette WintersonOranges Are Not the Only Fruit

I have set off and found that there is no end to even the simplest journey of the mind. I begin, and...

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No business can continue to shrink. That can only go on for so long before irrelevancy sets in.

The massive debt we have racked up to finance our wasteful government is pulling down growth today. ...

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Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.

The cost of growth is always a small act of violence.

Faith itself is a horrible mechanism that stunts the growth of ideas. It also stunts the act of ques...

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The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.

Science is a field which grows continuously with ever expanding frontiers. Further, it is truly inte...

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There was after all no mystery in the end of love, no mystery but the mystery of love itself, which ...

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I believe that man is here to grow into the fullest, the best that he can be. At least this is what ...

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Strait-jacket and chain-gang procedures had to be done away with if there was to a chance for growth...

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John DeweyExperience and Education

We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom a...

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Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capita...

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Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it ...

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John KeatsLetters of John Keats

Our torments also may in length of timeBecome our Elements.

Faith is born and sustained by the Word of God, and out of faith grows the flower of joy.

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John Piper (artist)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

Faith is born and sustained by the Word of God, and out of faith grows the flower of joy.

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John Piper (artist)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

Faith is born and sustained by the Word of God, and out of faith grows the flower of joy.

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John Piper (theologian)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

Faith is born and sustained by the Word of God, and out of faith grows the flower of joy.

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John Piper (theologian)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

Growth is betrayal.

In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: th...

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Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectu...

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What lived on-in me- was the discomfort of how completely I'd outgrown the novel I'd once been so ha...

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Jonathan FranzenThe Discomfort Zone: A Personal History

I suspected once that any human life, however intricate and full it might be, consisted in reality o...

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Nietzsche was the one who did the job for me. At a certain moment in his life,the idea came to him o...

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Joseph CampbellA Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

The demon that you can swallow gives you its power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s ...

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A person is not like a thing that you put down in one place and leave, a person moves, thinks, asks,...

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Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, maki...

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It is always necessary to acknowledge creative injuries and grieve them. Otherwise, they become crea...

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Julia CameronThe Artist's Way Workbook

Our future growth relies on competitiveness and innovation, skills and productivity... and these in ...

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In the progressive growth of astronomy, physics or mechanical science was developed, and when this h...

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Unbreakable, would you thought they called me Mr. GlassLook back on my life like the ghost of Christ...

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Science, like nothing else among the institutions of mankind, grows like a weed every year. Art is s...

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I feel different, better, about my personal life as well as my professional life. So much confidence...

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Kathleen TurnerSend Yourself Roses: Thoughts on My Life

Death Valley wasn't dead at all. It was asleep. It was simply waiting for the conditions of growth. ...

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Ken RobinsonThe Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that matte...

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The root cause of the looming energy problem - and the key to easing environmental, economic and rel...

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Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not g...

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Just fancy! One can hear and see the grass growing,' thought Levin, as he noticed wet slate-coloured...

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The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with beha...

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You must learn to give, from sufficiency, not only take, from neediness.

The wealthy and satisfied do not migrate, they stagnate.

The most common form of giantism is a condition called acromegaly, and acromegaly is caused by a ben...

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Bad, or good, as it happens to be, that is what it is to exist! . . . It is as though I have been si...

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