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“The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.”
“When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.”
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.”
“Actually, he was dead already. You didn't have to shoot him. It was a perfectly ordinary death.”
“When you come to a fork in the road, take it.”
“If we are honest with ourselves, most of us will have to admit that we live out our lives in an ocean of fear.”
“The biggest and only critic lives in your perception of people's perception of you rather than people's perception of you.”
“Life must be rich and full of loving-it's no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone. ”
“Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”
“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. ”
“Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.”
“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
“If you want to be sad, no one in the world can make you happy. But if you make up your mind to be happy, no one and nothing on earth can take that happiness from you.”
“Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.”
“Learning is a weightless treasure you can always carry easily.”
“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”
“Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.”
“Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.”
“It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.”
“A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.”
“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality. ”
“The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.”
“You know, religion itself, Eastern and Western, is divisive and quarrelsome anyway.”
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