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There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem or picture - that it came to him from outside, and that he did not consciously create it from within.


William Kingdon Clifford


#consciously #create #did #discoverer #discovery

To consider only one other such witness: the followers of the Buddha have at least as much right to appeal to individual and social experience in support of the authority of the Eastern saviour.


William Kingdon Clifford


#authority #buddha #consider #eastern #experience

I think all of us who kind of live within the sport recognize that Davis Cup certainly could be a little more visible if perhaps there were some adjustments made to it, and it was made a little bit more easy to understand for the fans, if there's a little bit more of a start and finish line.


Jim Courier


#certainly #could #cup #davis #davis cup

It's true that America can't solve every problem, but I don't know of any major problem in the world that can be solved without us.


Hillary Clinton


#any #every #i #know #major

America has faced much more difficult times, including potential national extinction, without flinching.


Nick Clooney


#difficult #difficult times #extinction #faced #flinching

It's gotten out of control. It's taking bigger and bigger names to make smaller and smaller films. I worry that important films without a big name attached won't get made at all.


Glenn Close


#big #bigger #control #films #get

What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.


Harlan Coben


#american #big #book #conspiracy #family

Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.


Jean Cocteau


#any #comfort #disguises #disposal #does

Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.


Jean Cocteau


#death #here #how #i #i am

I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.


Jean Cocteau


#best #friends #friendship #god #had






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