Nikki Gemmell Quotes
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What’s real is what’s valuable. Everything else is just an illusion.
Karl Schroeder
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The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man - that is, virtuous in the Y.M.C.A. sense - has ever painted a picture worth looking at, or written a symphony worth hearing, or a book worth reading.
H. L. Mencken
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Every action needs to be prompted by a motive. To know and to will are two operations of the human mind. Discerning, judging, deliberating are acts of the human mind.
Leonardo da Vinci
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A council to a magistrate, who is himself responsible for what he does, are generally nothing better than a clog upon his good intentions, are often the instruments and accomplices of his bad and are almost always a cloak to his faults.
Alexander Hamilton
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In Western Europe people perish from the congestion and stifling closeness, but with us it is from the spaciousness.... The expanses are so great that the little man hasn’t the resources to orient himself.... This is what I think about Russian suicides.
Anton Chekhov
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I'm so blessed with my baby. And I want the most normal life possible for him. And I'll manage, I will create that.
Britney Spears
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Does pain go away and leave no trace, then?’ ‘You sometimes even feel sentimental for it.
Yasunari Kawabata
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It is a remarkable fact, a scientific fact, that the healthiest children come from the happiest mothers.
L. Ron Hubbard
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Every philharmonic orchestra merely interprets the composer. My goal was to create new music by that composer. In doing so, I wanted to find the painter's creative center and become familiar with it, so that I could see through his eyes how his paintings came about and, of course, see the new picture I was painting through his eyes - before I even painted it.
Wolfgang Beltracchi
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The fundamental reality for every worker, from sweeper to executive vice-president, is the eight hours or so that he spends on the job. In our society of organizations, it is the job through which the great majority has access to achievement, to fulfillment, and to community.
Peter Drucker
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I buried everything under layers and layers and layers of code, but the signifiers of my emotionality were there, for me.
William Gibson
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Suffering should always open the door to wisdom.
Nikki Gemmell
