Category: writer
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The lives we live are a bit of a straight-hair vs. curly-hair thing. We often want what we don’t have. In reality, it’s not about better or worse; it’s just perception.
Simon Sinek
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If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000.
Anthony Burgess
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We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
Helen Keller
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The idea that to make a man work you’ve got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We’ve done that for so long that we’ve forgotten there’s any other way.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
George Eliot
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Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.
Charles Dickens
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
Napoleon Hill
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Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe