Although even when I am being idle I have plenty of food for thought both early and late - thoughts both about and not about art.

Author: Gustav Klimt

Author: Gustav Klimt

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American Education has a long history of infatuation with fads and ill-considered ideas. The current

Author: Diane Ravitch
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In the overwhelming demands of daily life, you get bombarded with continuous distractions, expectati

Author: Susan C. Young
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Curiosity is more important than knowledge.

Author: Albert Einstein
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I am not afraid of tomorrow for I have seen yesterday and I love today.

Author: William Allen White
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.

Author: Anthony Trollope
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Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make

Author: Steve Jobs
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I am hard at work on the second draft ... Second draft is really a misnomer as there are a gazillion

Author: Libba Bray
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The more Wayne inhabited Edison, the more he wondered how a man cultivates a stubborn streak so pron

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To be honest about it, I didn’t even always like Sharley. Maybe that’s the way it is with friends. M

Author: RK Vetter
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It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn from our errors and

Author: Steve Maraboli
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She threw back her head with a laugh that made her chins ripple like little waves.

Author: Edith Wharton
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...but [I] had sworn on the very day of my demobilization never to be under anyone’s orders for the

Author: Robert Graves
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I would like to live a day in the life of an ant and hope not to get squashed.

Author: Kiowa Gordon
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When you stand on top of that mountain and you look out, you will know that you will never again loo

Author: Anthony T. Hincks
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The man who discovers new knowledge is the permanent benefactor of humanity.

Author: Ayn Rand
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She sounded angry. That was the way she'd been as long as he'd known her. If she became ill, it irri

Author: Richard Matheson
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Nihil est sine ratione.[There is nothing without a reason.]

Author: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
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And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it’s a heightened state of awareness,

Author: Pico Iyer
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Lies can make harsh truths less painful. But I believe pain is essential for growth.

Author: Morgan Rhodes
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Life is a fantasy.

Author: Unknown
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It's very important to enjoy time alone with yourself and just existing, because existence is kind o

Author: Angel Olsen
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Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.

Author: Eoin Colfer
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God is almighty.

Author: Unknown
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Under every roof, a story, just as behind every brow, a history

Author: Gregory Maguire
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To Jane's horror, he unfolded her paper and read aloud. "Possible Candidates as Lovers.

Author: Tina Gabrielle
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Unless you are rich and can convalesce in a sanatorium estate (where visitors came down a tiered, oc

Author: Virginia Heffernan
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I've done a lot of drama, and as a lifestyle, going to work and laughing every day is just great. It

Author: Rose McIver
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Well, my personal mission statement is that we want marriage equality in all 50 states. We want it n

Author: Jesse Tyler Ferguson
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My beard grows down to my toes,I never wears no clothes,I wraps my hairAround my bare,And down the r

Author: Shel Silverstein
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Let him now speak or else hereafter for ever hold his peace.

Author: Bible
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I didn't falter and together we matched, step for step. Each swing of the sword was blocked, each st

Author: Freedom Matthews
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My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think

Author: Bob Hope
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We each have our own beliefs. What is important is not to piush your beliefs onto others.

Author: Samina Ali
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That girl had two chances. And both of us let her down.

Author: Jay Asher
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If people around me didn't lied, I would also won't lie!

Author: Deyth Banger
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You didn't just cheat on me

Author: Unknown
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I seriously have the best friends in the world.

Author: Evelyn Smith
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A block of blood should not have the word "cake" after it...they might as well say "shite gateau

Author: Karl Pilkington
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I tell you, my dear, Narcissus was no egoist… he was merely another of us who, in our unshatterable

Author: Truman Capote
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My mentors inspired and encourage to fulfill my highest potential.

Author: Unknown
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I am tremendously excited to introduce a unique 'Metal Gear Solid' experience to a new audience of g

Author: Hideo Kojima
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Jim knew that he was awake and asleep at the same time, dreaming of the war and yet dreamed of by th

Author: J.G. Ballard
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See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

Author: Richard P. Feynman
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You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions.

Author: Mos Def
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Policy was not reconsidered because the governing group had no habit of purposeful consultation.

Author: Barbara W. Tuchman
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We are commissioned to make disciples, to bring them into the same direct relationship with Christ a

Author: Billy Graham
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Keep flowing even its good or bad. Stilness is ultimate result of flow, path of yoga is to keep flow

Author: Yogi Vini
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There is no need to worry about whether you are capable of manifesting what you want. The truth is,

Author: Caroline A. Shearer
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I love supporting blue chip companies’ revival. Shows wise when you are on the top and you are still

Author: Csaba Gabor-B.
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He has chosen not to heal me, but to hold me. The more intense the pain, the closer His embrace.

Author: Joni Eareckson Tada
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Nick chided a censor, who wished some books gone, and suggested she scan Fahrenheit 451. For the boo

Author: David Davis
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Time after time during the next six months, he would put me together again.

Author: H.W. Brands
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The best lies were the simplest and made the most sense, in the mind and in the mouth.

Author: Rebecca Scherm
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I’m engaged in the dance of the ages and the search for a song to go with it. Though Templeton’s A V

Author: Chila Woychik
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The journey is the mystery…the destination the answer. If you don’t have a happy ending yet, you hav

Author: Shannon L. Alder
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There is only one all pervading God. It has only one message - Love all, encompass all and transcend

Author: Amit Ray
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It's better to go out with a bang and a press release than with a whimper and a secret.

Author: Mira Grant
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America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touchin

Author: John O'Hara
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The biggest test for parents is not how they parent, but how the respond to disorder and unpredictab

Author: Sarah Newton
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Often when she liked a picture she found that she was liking some part of herself, some part of her

Author: Jeanette Winterson
Quote #413571

I hope I look as good as my mother does when I reach the age she says she isn't.

Author: Anonymous
Quote #338278

I'm not taken and you needn't worry yourself about sharing me because I'm not asking you to. -Aria C

Author: Lilly Wilde
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You encounter, at its core, a subjective Reality, one based on meaning and value reflective of your

Author: Thomas Daniel Nehrer
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Your life is a screenplay, you must be the author; direct and make it a success.

Author: Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
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My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the ch

Author: Frederick Douglass
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Our present intricate humanly consciousness evolved after a long journey of struggle. And the beauty

Author: Abhijit Naskar
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I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that ha

Author: Frances Farmer
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When we hurt each other we should write it down in the sand so the winds of forgiveness can make it

Author: Christian H. Godefroy
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Both liberty and equality are among the primary goals pursued by human beings throughout many centur

Author: Isaiah Berlin
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Don't depend on anyone too much. Even your shadow leaves when it's dark.

Author: Anonymous
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I don't think a powerful man would be interesting unless he'd be nice, attractive, with or without t

Author: Dorothy Stratten
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The Universe contains three things that cannot be destroyed; Being, Awareness and LOVE

Author: Deepak Chopra
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Jonah-John-if I had been a Sam, I would have been a Jonah still-not because I have been unlucky for

Author: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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The prudent man always studies seriously and earnestly to understand whatever he professes to unders

Author: Adam Smith
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There are so many things I can't believe. That people deserve what they get, both bad and good. That

Author: Jodi Picoult
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Magic is a matter of focusing the disciplined will. But sometimes the will must be abandoned. The se

Author: Marion Zimmer Bradley
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When we do evil We and our victims Are equally bewildered.

Author: W. H. Auden
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As the boat drew nearer to shore, and tiny dots in the distance became seagulls, she opened the book

Author: Kate Morton
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The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

Author: Thornton Wilder
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It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without

Author: Robert G. Ingersoll
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It's interesting, isn't it? . . . the chandelier . . . it reminds me of mushroom soup.

Author: Tennessee Williams
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Social psychology is especially interested in the effect which the social group has in the determina

Author: George Herbert Mead
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It takes a certain level of consciousness to 'want' to grow your consciousness.

Author: Matthew Donnelly
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For most Americans, our most precious possession is citizenship in this amazing country.

Author: Ann Coulter
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The unavoidable has touched the life of every human being on the face of the earth. Some have reboun

Author: Paulo Coelho
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Bottom line: God will not allow any person to keep you from your destiny. They may be bigger, strong

Author: Joel Osteen
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I grew up reading the newspapers, mostly the sports section. I was a wrestler and would check to see

Author: Michael Pena
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Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happ

Author: Maurice Maeterlinck
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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Author: Jean Rostand
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Just about everything in this world is easier said than done, with the exception of "systematically

Author: Lemony Snicket
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I love Carrie Fisher, and it would be amazing to carry on her legacy.

Author: Millie Bobby Brown
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Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace

Author: Buddha
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What you theoretically know vividly realize.

Author: Francis Thompson
Quote #359391

I've learned that I have to stop equating saying yes with being a good person. I think I am being go

Author: Karin Rahbek
Quote #184306

A night of crying has silenced me. This morning it seems the whole world is against me. I've never b

Author: Shaun Hick
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We try to keep a good line of communication open with our children. It's not always about trying to

Author: Victoria Osteen
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Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties.

Author: Edmund Beecher Wilson
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Every season has an end~for a harvest to begin. Embrace the process!

Author: Prophetess Dina Rolle
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I thought you were just typical teenagers.”No one has ever called me typical. I can’t say I like it.

Author: Sarah Nicolas