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In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you'll dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dull and know I had to put it to the grindstone again and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining and nothing to say, or smooth and well-oiled in the closet, but unused. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

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Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

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I shall live forever and ever and ever ' he cried grandly. 'I shall find out thousands and thousands of things. I shall find out about people and creatures and everything that grows - like Dickon - and I shall never stop making Magic. I'm well I'm well ↗

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

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Make your life like toilet paper. Long and usefull. ↗

— Wolfgang Riebe

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The Enemy of the best is the good. If you're always settling with what's good, you'll never be the best. ↗

— Jerry Rice

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Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad results; bad thoughts and actions can never produce good results … We understand this law in the natural world, and work with it; but few understand it in the mental and moral world—although its operation there is just as simple and undeviating— and they, therefore, do not cooperate with it. ↗

— James Allen

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If love dies, that's when we've all truly died. ↗

— Keary Taylor

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Light is more important than the lantern, The poem more important than the notebook ↗

— Nizar Qabbani

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Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things. ↗

— Miyamoto Musashi

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Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen. ↗

— Conan O'Brien

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