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Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from. ↗

— Vernon Howard

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There were periods when I sometimes made fires in a large, open fireplace that lasted about two weeks, which was how long it took to burn my compositions. So there has been an awful lot that I have destroyed. ↗

— Alan Hovhaness

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Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for his own welfare. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

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As a child our dreams got scattered all about and all our future prospects got scattered to so many places, and we spend our lives trying to find the little pieces that make up our lives and make up the dreams that we had as a child that got blown away in the windstorm. ↗

— Terrence Howard

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In every person we meet there's this little piece of God in them and that's who you talk to. And that's the only person that you allow to talk to you. When something else is speaking, you walk away from that. If it's not good, if it's not love, you walk away from it. ↗

— Terrence Howard

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Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them. ↗

— E. W. Howe

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Occasionally projects just take off unexpectedly, sometimes you can work away at sketches and ideas for years before they are published. There are a number of authors I would be eager to illustrate. ↗

— John Howe

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Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness. ↗

— John Howe

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Drawing must seek interest, not admiration. Because admiration wears quickly. ↗

— John Howe

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What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal. ↗

— John Howe

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