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In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

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Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

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None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry. ↗

— Edith Hamilton

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If I'd been easily discouraged, I could have been a one-hit wonder. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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Perfection is an unattainable goal. It isn't going to be perfect. Just get words down on paper, and when you stumble to what you think is the end of the book, you will have hundreds of pages of words that came out of your head. It may not be perfect, but it looks like a book. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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We inhabit a language rather than a country. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

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Fame is a very confusing thing, because you are recognized by a lot of people that you've never seen before, and they're at a great advantage. ↗

— Scott Hamilton

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Without strength and courage it's really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you're alone on the ice and you only have seven minutes over two nights to prove yourself. ↗

— Scott Hamilton

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There have been studies that clearly state that children who are exposed to arts education at a young age will in fact do markedly better in their SAT tests. ↗

— Marvin Hamlisch

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