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• [My mother] speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety.

  Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

  Life, Mother, Pain

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• These code authorities could regulate production, quantities, qualities, prices, distribution methods, etc., under the supervision of the NRA. This was fascism.

  John T. Flynn

  Quality, Nra, Authority

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• When the student has her voice under complete control, it is safe to take up the lyric repertoire of Mendelssohn, Old English Songs, etc. How simple and charming they are!

  Alma Gluck

  Song, Simple, Voice

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• I believe in keeping running simple and, in regard to shoes, that would mean no gimmicks, unnecessary cushioning, etc

  Bill Rodgers

  Running, Believe, Mean

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• None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter.

  Anne Tyler

  Mom, Motherhood, Age

  "Author Q&A". Penguin Random House Interview, www.penguinrandomhouse.com.

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• I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.

  Jackson Pollock

  Artist, Usual, Tools

  Jackson Pollock (2003). “Jackson Pollock. Englische Ausgabe.”, Kehrer Verlag

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• I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.

  Jackson Pollock

  Artist, Painting, No Fear

  Jackson Pollock, Gagosian Gallery (1990). “Jackson Pollock: black enamel paintings, April-May 1990”

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• All of the factors that make up a quality city - safe streets, high paying jobs, strong neighborhoods, etc. - emanate from a strong educational premise.

  Alan Autry

  Strong, Jobs, Educational

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't think that anyone seriously fears that the world can be blown to pieces all together. But what one can fear and rightly so are regional things, like in the Middle East, India, Pakistan, the Korean Peninsula, borders in Africa, etc.

  Hans Blix

  Thinking, Together, Middle East

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• Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Time, Library, Principles

  "'Gedanken, Satiren, Fragmente' ('Thoughts, Satires, Fragments')". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, 1907.

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• The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

  Franz Kafka

  Life, Spiritual, Mind

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• The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to register on the black inmates.

  George Jackson

  Reading, Black, Savages

  George Jackson (1970). “Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson”, Chicago Review Press

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• Rules are to be initiated for the allotment of scarce raw materials etc; and their use and processing for other than war, or otherwise absolutely vital, goods is prohibited

  Hjalmar Schacht

  War, Raw Materials, Use

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• I have a cheat-sheet for each one of my characters about their personality, the way they look, etc. So there is no possible way that I could have writer's block.

  R. L. Stine

  Cheating, Block, Writing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.

  George Santayana

  Football, Art, Kindness

  George Santayana (1968). “Santayana on America: Essays, Notes, and Letters on American Life, Literature, and Philosophy”

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• An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Style, Reputation

  Henri Matisse (2011). “Matisse: Drawing Life”, Queensland Art Gallery

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• In individual industries where female labour pays an important role, any movement advocating better wages, shorter working hours, etc., would not be doomed from the start because of the attitude of those women workers who are not organized.

  Clara Zetkin

  Attitude, Important, Pay

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• I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness.

  Norman Spinrad

  Relationship, Technology, Political

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• Whatever you desire for yourself, affirm it for others, and it will help you both. We reap what we sow. If we send out thoughts of love and health, they return to us like bread cast upon the waters; but if we send out thoughts of fear, worry, jealousy, anger, hate, etc., we will reap the results in our own lives.

  Charles F. Haanel

  Hate, Water, Worry

  Charles F. Haanel (2013). “The Master Key System & Mental Chemistry”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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• My wife and I both made a list of 5 people we could sleep with...she read hers out and there were no surprises...1 George Clooney...2 Brad Pitt etc...I thought 'Ive got the better deal here'...1 Your sister

  Michael McIntyre

  Witty, Sleep, People

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• I love to live alone in my own little cottage, where I can spend much time in prayer, etc

  David Brainerd

  Prayer, Cottages, Littles

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• I believe Western culture - rule of law, universal suffrage, etc. - is preferable to Arab culture: that's why there are millions of Muslims in Scandinavia, and four Scandinavians in Syria. Follow the traffic. I support immigration, but with assimilation.

  Mark Steyn

  Believe, Law, Support

  "Battered Westerner Syndrome inflicted by myopic Muslim defenders" by Mark Steyn, www.jewishworldreview.com. August 23, 2002.

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• People are actually very good at being communists in the sense that they instantly abandon capitalism, that they love these relationships of mutual aid, because the astonishing thing about disasters is that people are often weirdly joyous in them, because they've recovered a sense of agency, a sense of power, etc.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Agency, People, Communist

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Cofishes-other fish in a group, coworkers, cohorts, etc. Shut up, it's a word.

  Christopher Moore

  Groups, Coworker, Shut Up

  Christopher Moore (2009). “Fool: A Novel”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• Remember William Blake who said: "Improvement makes straight, straight roads, but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius." The truth is, life itself, is always startling, strange, unexpected. But when the truth is told about it everybody knows at once that it is life itself and not made up. But in ordinary fiction, movies, etc, everything is smoothed out to seem plausible--villains made bad, heroes splendid, heroines glamorous, and so on, so that no one believes a word

  Brenda Ueland

  Believe, Hero, Ordinary

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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