George William Russell Quotes
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What disturbs and alarms man are not the things, but his opinions and fancies about the things.
Epictetus
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You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.
William Hurt
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O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water" (Psalm 63:1). We may imagine we want a thousand different things, but God is the one we really long for. His presence brings satisfaction; his absence brings thirst and longing.
Randy Alcorn
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Love is the greatest of dreams, yet the worst of nightmares.
William Shakespeare
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I will reflect a thousand times over before I allow the German Volk to become entangled in agreements whose consequences are not readily evident.
Adolf Hitler
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I believe in the resonance and staying power of quiet photographs. These photographs required a certain seeing, but few special techniques, and no tricks. Something though was hard. It was hard being between photographs and not knowing when or how another image would reveal itself.
William Albert Allard
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Some of my best men are women!
William Booth
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He... was attached by ties stronger than reason could break -- chains, forged by habit, which it would be cruel to attempt to loosen.
Emily Bronte
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Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking.
Charles Dickens
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When you look back on a historical period of music, it seems so obvious to you what the characteristics of it are, but they're not obvious at the time. So, when I look back at my own work, I could easily write a very convincing sort of account of it that made it look like I had planned it all out from day one and that this led logically to that and then I did this and then that followed quite naturally from that. But that's not how it felt.
Brian Eno
Roxy Music
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Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
Albert Einstein
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One problem we discovered, for example, was that our "create a new account" button was in the wrong place...By simply moving it to the left side, mirroring the way people read, we saw a huge improvement in the way people used the site.
Marc Benioff
