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• As you become acquainted with a character you are creating, you add parts of yourself that are pertinent to that character.

  Chuck Jones

  Character, Creating, Pertinent

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• Being with someone who is smart and gives good advice adds tremendously wonderful elements to your life.

  Patricia Cornwell

  Smart, Giving, Advice

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• You do not conceive a novel as easily as you conceive a child, nor even half as easily as you create nonfiction work. A journalist amasses facts, anecdotes and interviews with top brass. Enough of these add up to a book. A novelist demands quite different things. He has to find himself in his materials, to know for sure how he would feel and act and the events he writes about. In addition, he requires a catalyst — a person, idea, or emotion which coalesces his ingredients and makes them jell into a solid purpose.

  Zelda Popkin

  Children, Book, Writing

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• I will give you my definition of a nation, and you can add the adjective 'Jewish.' A Nation is, in my mind, an historical group of men of a recognizable cohesion held together by a common enemy. Then, if you add to that the word 'Jewish' you have what I understand to be the Jewish nation.

  Theodor Herzl

  Men, Giving, Historical

  Theodor Herzl (2014). “The Jewish State: with 2014 Foreword by Jerold S. Auerbach”, p.46, Quid Pro Books

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• Every man who truly loves a woman, and every woman who truly loves a man, hopes and dreams that their companionship will last forever. But marriage is a covenant sealed by authority. If that authority is of the state alone, it will endure only while the state has jurisdiction, and that jurisdiction ends with death. But add to the authority of the state the power of the endowment given by Him who overcame death, and that companionship will endure beyond life if the parties to the marriage live worthy of the promise.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Dream, Party, Men

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• I believe in love and lust and sex and romance. I don't want everything to add up to some perfect equation. I want mess and chaos. I want someone to go crazy out of his mind for me. I want to feel passion and heat and sweat and madness. I want valenties and cupids and all of that crap. I want it all.

  Barbra Streisand

  Sex, Crazy, Believe

  "Fictional character: Rose Morgan". "The Mirror Has Two Faces", November 1, 1996.

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• The full cosmos consists of the physical stuff and consciousness. Take away consciousness and it's only dust; add consciousness and you get things, ideas, and time.

  Neal Stephenson

  Dust, Ideas, Cosmos

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• A willing heart adds feather to the heel.

  Joanna Baillie

  Heart, High Heels, Willing

  Joanna Baillie (1800). “A series of plays, in which it is attempted to delineate the stronger passions of the mind [by J. Baillie”, p.355

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• I suggested that it was not enough to add a moustache to the Mona Lisa: it should simply be destroyed.

  Pierre Boulez

  Moustache, Enough, Should

  Pierre Boulez, Martin Cooper (1990). “Orientations: Collected Writings”, p.481, Harvard University Press

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• When you talk about your troubles, your ailments, your diseases, your hurts, you give longer life to what makes you unhappy. Talking about your grievances merely adds to those grievances. Give recognition only to what you desire. Think and talk only about the good things that add to your enjoyment of your work and life. If you don't talk about your grievances, you'll be delighted to find them disappearing quickly.

  Thomas Dreier

  Life, Hurt, Thinking

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• The Church of Christ, zealous and cautious guardian of the dogmas deposited with it, never changes any phase of them. It does not diminish them or add to them; it neither trims what seems necessary now grafts things superfluous . . . but it devotes all its diligence to one aim: To treat tradition faithfully and wisely; to consolidate and to strengthen what already was clear; and to guard what already was confirmed and defined.

  St. Vincent

  Church, Doe, Zealous

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• In the past 20 years alone, it adds up to more death than were caused by all the civil and international wars adn government repression of the entire twentieth century, the century of Hitler and Stalin. How much would we give to prevent those horrors? Yet how little are we doing to prevent today's even larger toll and all the misery that it involves? I believe that if you read this book to the end, and look honestly and carefully at our situation, assessing both the facts and the ethical arguments, you will agree that we must act.

  Peter Singer

  War, Believe, Book

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• No one may have the guts to say this, but if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn't we?

  James D. Watson

  Knowing, May, Genes

  "Risky Genetic Fantasies". The Los Angeles Times, July 29, 2001.

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• Being in the Midwest, you get the best of all worlds and add your own flavor to it.

  Big Sean

  Midwest, Flavor, World

  Interview with Sowmya Krishnamurthy, www.askmen.com.

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• It's wrong to deprive someone else of a pleasure so that you can enjoy one yourself, but to deprive yourself of a pleasure so that you can add to someone else's enjoyment is an act of humanity by which you always gain more than you lose.

  Thomas More

  Humanity, Gains, Pleasure

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• A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a crime. Make it untrue and add an accent of truth.

  Edgar Degas

  Vices, Knavery, Crime

  Robert Hale Ives Gammell, Edgar Degas (1961). “The shop-talk of Edgar Degas”

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• Cover the canvas at the first go, then work at it until you see nothing more to add.

  Camille Pissarro

  Firsts, Canvas

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• It is how we choose what we do, and how we approach it, that will determine whether the sum of our days adds up to a formless blur, or to something resembling a work of art.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Art, Blur, Approach

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1997). “Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life”, p.13, Basic Books

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• The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs. The hours writing in your journal. The long meandering walks. The hours reading poetry and story collections and novels and dead people’s diaries and wondering about sex and God and whether you should shave under your arms or not. These things are your becoming.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Jobs, Sex, Reading

  Cheryl Strayed (2013). “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There”, p.248, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Literally minutes before the Senate cast its vote, the administration sought to add the words 'in the United States and' after 'appropriate force' in the agreed-upon text. This last-minute change would have given the president broad authority to exercise expansive powers not just overseas-where we all understood he wanted authority to act-but right here in the United States, potentially against American citizens. I could see no justification for Congress to accede to this extraordinary request for additional authority. I refused.

  Tom Daschle

  Exercise, President, United States

  "Bush's NSA Hubris" by Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. January 20, 2006.

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• I'd like to add that negotiating is not something to be avoided or feared - it's an everyday part of life.

  Leigh Steinberg

  Everyday, Parts Of Life, Avoided

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• The truth is... everything counts. Everything. Everything we do and everything we say. Everything helps or hurts; everything adds to or takes away from someone else.

  Countee Cullen

  Hurt, Truth, Poetry

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• Mere curiosity adds wings to every step.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wings, Curiosity, Steps

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• Memory itself is an internal rumour; and when to this hearsay within the mind we add the falsified echoes that reach us from others, we have but a shifting and unseizable basis to build upon. The picture we frame of the past changes continually and grows every day less similar to the original experience which it purports to describe.

  George Santayana

  Memories, Past, Echoes

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.375, 谷月社

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• It science involves an intelligent and persistent endeavor to revise current beliefs so as to weed out what is erroneous, to add to their accuracy, and, above all, to give them such shape that the dependencies of the various facts upon one another may be as obvious as possible.

  John Dewey

  Weed, Intelligent, Giving

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Sidney Hook (2008). “The Middle Works of John Dewey, 1899-1924, Volume 9: 1916, Democracy and Education”, p.227, SIU Press

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