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• Life is an arrow, therefore you must know What mark to aim at, how to use the bow-- Then draw it to the head and let it go!

  Henry Van Dyke

  Life, Arrows, Let It Go

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The Poems of Henry Van Dyke”

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• Cupid in these latter times has probably laid aside his bow and arrow, and uses fire-arms -- a pistol -- perhaps a revolver.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Fire, Arrows, Arms

  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Julian Hawthorne (2015). “Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of “The Scarlet Letter”, “The House of Seven Gables” and “Twice-Told Tales””, p.436, e-artnow

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• Anger is precious. A silverback uses anger to maintain order and warn his troops of danger. When my father beat his chest, it was to say, Beware, listen, I am in charge. I am angry to protect you, because that is what I was born to do. Here in my domain there is no one to protect.

  Katherine Applegate

  Father, Order, Troops

  Katherine Applegate (2012). “The One and Only Ivan”, p.18, HarperCollins UK

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• The entire vitality of art depends upon its being either full of truth, or full of use; and that, however pleasant, wonderful, or impressive it may be in itself, it must yet be of inferior kind, and tend to deeper inferiority, unless it has clearly one of these main objects, either to state a true thing, or to adorn a serviceable one.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Vitality, Inferiority

  John Ruskin (2012). “Selections From the Works of John Ruskin”, p.303, tredition

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• The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use.

  Chinua Achebe

  Different, World, Pay

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• Instead of respecting things, we want to use them for ourselves and if it is difficult to use them, we want to conquer them.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Want, Conquer, Difficult

  "Not Always So: Practicing the True Spirit of Zen". Book by Shunryū Suzuki. Chapter: "Respect For Things", p. 81, 2002.

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• At Wal-Mart, a co-worker once advised me that, although I had a lot to learn, it was also important not to "know too much," or at least never to reveal one's full abilities to management, because "the more they think you can do, the more they'll use you and abuse you." My mentors in these matters were not lazy; they just understood that there are few or no rewards for heroic performance. The trick lies in figuring out how to budget your energy so there'll be some left over for the next day.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Lying, Thinking, Next Day

  "Nickel and Dimed". Book by Barbara Ehrenreich, 2001.

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• The possession of a library, or the free use of it, no more constitutes learning, than the possession of wealth constitutes generosity.

  Samuel Smiles

  Generosity, Library, Wealth

  Samuel Smiles (1868). “Self-Help; with Illustrations of Character, Conduct, and Perseverance by Samuel Smiles”, p.327

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• Radicals are only to be feared when you try to suppress them. You must demonstrate that you will use the best of what they offer.

  Frank Herbert

  Trying, Radical, Offers

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.31, Penguin

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• Justice? Who asks for justice? We make our own justice ... Let us not rail about justice as long as we have arms and the freedom to use them.

  Frank Herbert

  Long, Justice, Arms

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.421, Penguin

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• Such is the nature of crowds: either they are humble and servile or arrogant and dominating. They are incapable of making moderate use of freedom, which is the middle course, or of keeping it.

  Livy

  Humble, Arrogant, Crowds

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book XXIV, section 25,

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• Anarchists generally make use if the word "State" to mean all the collection of institutions, political, legislative, judicial, military, financial, etc., by means of which management of their own affairs, the guidance of their personal conduct, and the care of ensuring their own safety are taken from the people and confided to certain individuals, and these, whether by usurpation or delegation, are invested with the right to make laws over and for all, and to constrain the public to respect them, making use of the collective force of the community to this end.

  Errico Malatesta

  Military, Taken, Mean

  "Anarchy". Pamphlet by Errico Malatesta, www.marxists.org. 1891.

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• We use religion like a trolley-car--we ride on it only while it is going our way.

  Austin O'Malley

  Car, Religion, Way

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• In desperation I asked Fermi whether he was not impressed by the agreement between our calculated numbers and his measured numbers. He replied, "How many arbitrary parameters did you use for your calculations?" I thought for a moment about our cut-off procedures and said, "Four." He said, "I remember my friend Johnny von Neumann used to say, with four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk." With that, the conversation was over.

  Freeman Dyson

  Cutting, Agreement, Elephants

  "A meeting with Enrico Fermi" by Freeman Dyson, www.nature.com. January 22, 2004.

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• The marvellous instinct with which women are usually credited seems too often to desert them on the only occasions when it would be of any real use. One would say it was there for trivialities only, since in a crisis they are usually dense, fatally doing the wrong thing. It is hardly too much to say that most domestic tragedies are caused by the feminine intuition of men and the want of it in women.

  Ada Leverson

  Real, Men, Intuition

  Ada Leverson (1962). “The little Ottleys: Love's shadow. Tenterhooks. Love at second sight”

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• Tis possible, young sir, that some excess Mars youthful judgment and old men's no less; Yet we must take our counsel as we may For (flying years this lesson still convey), 'Tis worst unwisdom to be overwise, And not to use, but still correct one's eyes.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Eye, Men, Years

  Arthur Hugh Clough, F. H. Langman (1964). “Selected poems”

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• I am learning that mature faith, which encompasses both simple faith and fidelity, works the opposite of paranoia. It reassembles all the events of life around trust in a loving God. When good things happen, I accept them as gifts from God, worthy of thanksgiving. When bad things happen, I do not take them as necessarily sent by God -- I see evidence in the Bible to the contrary -- and I find in them no reason to divorce God. Rather, I trust that God can use even those bad things for my benefit.

  Philip Yancey

  Divorce, Simple, Opposites

  Philip Yancey (2009). “Reaching for the Invisible God Study Guide”, p.28, Zondervan

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• I had a very Italian house - the "plastic furniture you couldn't sit on" house. Did anybody have the museum house? For a kid it's traumatic. Towels you can never touch. China no one's ever gonna use. Everything is for a special occasion that never happens. My mother was waiting for the Pope to show up for dinner. Or Sinatra. Or Chachi.

  Ray Romano

  Mother, Kids, Italian

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• The selective instinct of the artist tells him when his language should be homely, and when it should be more elevated; and it is precisely in the imperceptible blending of the plain with the ornate that a great writer is distinguished. He uses the simplest phrases without triviality, and the grandest without a suggestion of grandiloquence.

  George Henry Lewes

  Artist, Phrases, Suggestions

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• Simon Wiesenthal told me that any political party in a democracy that uses the word 'freedom' in its name is either Nazi or Communist.

  Simon Wiesenthal

  Party, Names, Political

  "Balkan Ghost". Book by Robert D. Kaplan, 1993.

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• There's a tremendous popular fallacy which holds that significant research can be carried out by trying things. Actually it is easy to show that in general no significant problem can be solved empirically, except for accidents so rare as to be statistically unimportant. One of my jests is to say that we work empirically -- we use bull's eye empiricism. We try everything, but we try the right thing first!

  Edwin Land

  Eye, Trying, Firsts

  "The Journal of Imaging Science and Technology", (Vol. 37, No. 3, p. 537), 1992.

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• Be clear in your mind why learning to draw well is important. Drawing enables you to see in that special, epiphanous way that artists see, no matter what style you use to express your special insight. Your goal in drawing should be to encounter the reality of experience... to see ever more clearly, ever more deeply.

  Betty Edwards

  Artist, Reality, Drawing

  Betty Edwards (1999). “The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain”, Tarcher

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• My policy is trust, peace, and to put aside the bayonet. I do not think the wise policy is to decide contested elections in the States by the use of the national army.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Wise, Army, Thinking

  Diary entry. "Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States". Book edited by Charles Richard Williams, The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, March 14, 1877.

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• The so-called 'discoveries' of the Impressionists could not have been unknown to the old masters; and if they made no use of them, it was because all great artists have renounced the use of effects. And in simplifying nature, they made it all the greater.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Artist, Discovery, Made

  "Renoir - his life and work" by Francois Fosca, Book Club Associates/ Thames and Hudson Ltd, London, (p. 178), 1975.

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• I don't mind people trying to pick apart my policies, and that's fine and that's fair game. But, you know, I don't think we're serving our nation well by allowing the discourse to become so uncivil that people use words that they shouldn't be using.

  George W. Bush

  Thinking, Games, People

  "An Exclusive Interview With President Bush". Interview with Brit Hume, www.foxnews.com. September 23, 2003.

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