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• Are you hero enough to unite yourself to one whom you know to be suspected and despised by all around you, and identify your interests and your honor with hers?

  Anne Bronte

  Hero, Honor, Interest

  Anne Bronte (2017). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall”, p.100, Litres

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• That single thought is enough. The impulse increases to a wish, the wish to a desire, the desire to an uncontrollable longing, and the longing (to the deep regret and mortification of the speaker, and in defiance of all consequences,) is indulged.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Regret, Wish, Desire

  Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine (1976). “The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition”, p.269, University of Illinois Press

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• Perfect hexagonal tubes in a packed array. Bees are hard-wired to lay them down, but how does an insect know enough geometry to lay down a precise hexagon? It doesn't. It's programmed to chew up wax and spit it out while turning on its axis, and that generates a circle. Put a bunch of bees on the same surface, chewing side-by-side, and the circles abut against each other - deform each other into hexagons, which just happen to be more efficient for close packing anyway.

  Peter Watts

  Circles, Axes, Perfect

  Peter Watts (2014). “Firefall”, p.193, Head of Zeus

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• I stood lonely enough, but to that feeling of isolation I was accustomed: it did not oppress me much.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Lonely, Feelings, Isolation

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.43, Penguin

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• It is desperately important to remember when enough is enough, when you've finished the scene.

  John Mortimer

  Writing, Important, Remember

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• If you are brave enough to be yourself, I think that is a huge risk and should be applauded.

  Jennifer Nettles

  Being Yourself, Thinking, Brave

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• Pick a big enough project, something that's really hard, something that over the years you can work on.

  Jessica Livingston

  Years, Projects, Bigs

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• Moments are history. If you have enough of them, they become a story.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Stories, Moments, Ifs

  Adriana Trigiani (2012). “The Shoemaker's Wife”, p.314, Simon and Schuster

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• For a woman, love is the highest dream, and if a man promises to build a ladder tall enough to reach it, she believes him, hikes up her skirt, and follows him to the stars.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Dream, Stars, Believe

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• I had read enough mediocre scripts and was determined not to inflict another one on the world.

  Michael Arndt

  World, Scripts, Determined

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• Good tea is eloquent enough, it turns out, to change a person's mind.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Tea, Mind, Turns

  Banana Yoshimoto (2011). “The Lake”, p.88, Melville House

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• Christ did not die for the good and beautiful. It is easy enough to die for the good and beautiful; the hard thing is to die for the miserable and corrupt.

  Shusaku Endo

  Beautiful, Miserable, Christ

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• If you get deep enough, you get trapped. Stop calling yourself a user. You are being used.

  Jaron Lanier

  Calling, Used, Ifs

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• It was great fun, to learn anew. You think you know enough, but you don't. You must open up; let it in. be receptive, admit what you don't know, which few are willing to do. Start from square one. Again!

  Alex Toth

  Fun, Thinking, Squares

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• When things get bad enough, then something happens to correct the course. And it's for that reason that I speak about evolution as an error-making and an error-correcting process. And if we can be ever so much better - ever so much slightly better - at error correcting than at error making, then we'll make it.

  Jonas Salk

  Errors, Evolution, Speak

  "Man Evolving". Interview with Richard D. Heffner on The Open Mind, May 11, 1985.

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• I never want to discourage anyone who chooses the arts as a path because it's hard enough to make it in this business or even get ahead.

  Nicole Appleton

  Art, Want, Path

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• We've going to bring back thighs. Enough of these size zeros. Thighs, and back fat, and over-the-belt fat, it's all got to come back again, and we're the ones to do it.

  Nicole Appleton

  Size, Belts, Fats

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• A woman has to look good, but a man—a little bit nicer looking than a monkey is enough.

  Meir Shalev

  Men, Looks, Littles

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• I first studied to be a preacher, but decided that I was too prone to tell big stories. Then I studied Blackstone for a while and soon learned that I was not adept enough at prevarication to make a successful lawyer. I then made up my mind that I would seek some field where I could tell big stories and tell the truth.

  Isaac Cline

  Successful, Mind, Stories

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• There's enough people that do unfunny music. I'll leave the serious stuff to Paris Hilton and Kevin Federline.

  Al Yankovic

  Paris, People, Kevin

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• The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else's fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore that there are no errors, that any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.

  Adam Gopnik

  Distance, Believe, Simple

  Adam Gopnik (2000). “Paris to the Moon”, Random House Incorporated

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• Writing well isn't just a question of winsome expression, but of having found something big and true to say and having found the right words to say it in, of having seen something large and having found the right words to say it small, small enough to enter an individual mind so that the strong ideas of what the words are saying sound like sweet reason.

  Adam Gopnik

  Sweet, Strong, Writing

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• I knew if I waited long enough, the Republican Party would rock.

  Michael Reagan

  Party, Rocks, Long

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. September 01, 2004.

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• Revisionist historians are about to get their hands on the Thatcher years, shes probably going to be looked at again because she feels far enough away now, and we dont see her much on the political landscape in this country, shes kind of disappeared and she doesnt speak out much anymore.

  Jonathan Coe

  Country, Hands, Speaks Out

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