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• With each passage of human growth we must shed a protective structure . We are left exposed and vulnerable - but also yeasty and embryonic again, capable of stretching in ways we hadn't known before.

  Gail Sheehy

  Growth, Way, Vulnerable

  Gail Sheehy (1977). “Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life”, Bantam

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• Obedience to truth known, is the king's highway to that which is still beyond us.

  Francis Quarles

  Kings, Obedience, Highways

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• A colourist makes his presence known even in a simple charcoal drawing.

  Henri Matisse

  Simple, Drawing, Charcoal

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1973). “Matisse on art”

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• Making your unknown known is the important thing - and keeping the unknown always beyond you - catching - crystalizing your simpler clearer vision of life - only to see it turn stale compared to what you vaguely feel ahead - that you must always keep working to grasp.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Vision, Important, Catching

  Roxana Robinson, Georgia O'Keeffe (1989). “Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life”, p.256, UPNE

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• It is well known that "problem avoidance" is an important part of problem solving. Instead of solving the problem you go upstream and alter the system so that the problem does not occur in the first place.

  Edward de Bono

  Important, Doe, Firsts

  Edward De Bono (1992). “Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas”, Harpercollins

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• To the modern spirit nothing is, or can be rightly known, except relatively and under conditions.

  Walter Pater

  Knowledge, Spirit, Modern

  Walter Pater (2011). “The Works of Walter Pater”, p.66, Cambridge University Press

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• We ought to be thankful to nature for having made those things which are necessary easy to be discovered; while other things that are difficult to be known are not necessary.

  Epicurus

  Being Thankful, Easy, Made

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• Certainly that sputterless little candleflame of the mediocre mind known as 'common sense' has never produced anything worth celebrating.

  Tom Robbins

  Common Sense, Mind, Mediocrity

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.137, Bantam

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• In that world, you'll be able to rise in the morning with the spirit you had known in your childhood: that spirit of eagerness, adventure and certainty which comes from dealing with a rational universe.

  Ayn Rand

  Morning, Adventure, Childhood

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.816, Hamilton Books

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• Most people coming out of war feel lost and resentful. What had been a minute-to-minute confrontation with yourself, your struggle with what courage you have against discomfort, at the least, and death at the other end, ties you to the people you have known in the war and makes for a time others seem alien and frivolous.

  Lillian Hellman

  War, Struggle, Ties

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• I have never yet known a poet who did not think himself super-excellent.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Thinking, Poet, Excellent

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Tusculanarum Disputationum, V, 22, p. 605-09, 1922.

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• The arrogance of race prejudice is an arrogance which defies what is scientifically known of human races.

  Ruth Benedict

  Race, Racism, Arrogance

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• Amongst the sons of men how few are known Who dare be just to merit not their own.

  Charles Churchill

  Son, Men, Justice

  Charles Churchill (1822). “The Poems of Charles Churchill”, p.109

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• When someone who is known for being comedic does something straight, it's always "a big breakthrough" or a "radical departure." Why is is no one ever says that if a straight actor does comedy? Are they presuming comedy is easier?

  Carol Burnett

  Humor, Doe, Actors

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• They know who keep a broken tryst, Till something from the Spring be missed We have not truly known the Spring.

  Robert Underwood Johnson

  Spring, Broken, Knows

  Robert Underwood Johnson (1914). “Saint-Gaudens: an Ode, and Other Verse”

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• By far the most common task for which the machines are used is writing - or word processing, as it's known to the same people who call journalism 'content.

  Robert Motherwell

  Writing, People, Tasks

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• I am very much aware of my own double self... The well-known one is very under control; everything is planned and very secure. The unknown one can be very unpleasant. I think this side is responsible for all the creative work - he is in touch with the child.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Children, Thinking, Self

  Ingmar Bergman, Raphael Shargel (2007). “Ingmar Bergman: Interviews”, p.160, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• It is generally recognized that creativity requires leisure, an absence of rush, time for the mind and imagination to float and wander and roam, time for the individual to descend into the depths of his or her psyche, to be available to barely audible signals rustling for attention. Long periods of time may pass in which nothing seems to be happening. But we know that kind of space must be created if the mind is to leap out of its accustomed ruts, to part from the mechanical, the known, the familiar, the standard, and generate a leap into the new.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Creativity, Space, Imagination

  Nathaniel Branden (2008). “The Psychology of Romantic Love: Romantic Love in an Anti-Romantic Age”, p.150, Penguin

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• So, you see, it's a real chore for me to write a book review because it's like a contest. It's like I'm writing that book review for every bad book reviewer I've ever known and it's a way of saying [thrusts a middle finger into the air] this is how you ought to do it. I like to rub their noses in it.

  John Irving

  Real, Book, Writing

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• I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Painting, Good Work, Painter

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• But those who wish to prove to unbelievers that Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith can this be known.

  John Calvin

  Wish, Acting, Scripture

  John Calvin (1975). “John Calvin: Selections from His Writings”, p.13, Oxford University Press

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• Country' and 'city' are very powerful words, and this is not surprising when we remember how much they seem to stand for in the experience of human communities. In English, 'country' is both a nation and a part of a 'land'; 'the country' can be the whole society or its rural area. In the long history of human settlements, this connection between the land from which directly or indirectly we all get our living and the achievements of human society has been deeply known.

  Raymond Williams

  Country, Powerful, Land

  Raymond Williams (1975). “The Country and the City”, p.1, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Cheerfulness is the daughter of employment; and I have known a man come home in high spirits from a funeral, merely because he has had the management of it.

  William Cornelius Van Horne

  Daughter, Home, Men

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• When the evil deed, after it has become known, brings sorrow to the fool, then it destroys his bright lot, nay, it cleaves his head.

  Max Muller

  Evil, Sorrow, Deeds

  F. Max Muller (2016). “The Dhammapada”, p.11, Xist Publishing

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• Restricting too personal, and therefore prejudiced, interpretation leads to revolution - the fusion of an inner and outer reality derived from the wholeness of life - sublimating things seen into things known.

  Edward Weston

  Reality, Fusion, Revolution

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