Wordgrove Post & Review

THIS EDITION: source :: resource

Quoted In The Grove:
Because of the active principle and spirit or universal soul, nothing is so incomplete, defective or imperfect, or, according to common opinion, so completely insignificant that it could not become the source of great events.
~Giordano Bruno (1548-1600 / butterfly effect-1960)

Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.
~Arthur Machen

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
~Albert Einstein

EndQuote:
There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.
~Friedrich Schiller

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The man who keeps a commonplace-book too often resembles the dog which carefully buries a bone for future use, yet seldom or never returns to dig it up; and it is positively pathetic to think of the intellectual dainties which probably lie buried in many a pale and faded volume of this class.

I propose then to dig up some of the old bones which are to be found in a repository of this kind which lately came into my hands, and to serve up to the reader — if I can catch him — a few curious odds and ends culled from this source; a few literary or linguistic morsels, which I hope may not prove altogether insipid.
~Patrick Maxwell

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Many in the world are searching, often intensely, for a source of refreshment that will quench their yearning for meaning and direction in their lives. They crave a cool, satisfying drink of insight and knowledge that will soothe their parched souls.
~Joseph B Wirthlin

Somewhere in the back of their minds, hosts and guests alike know that the dinner party is a source of untold irritation, and that even the dullest evening spent watching television is preferable.
~Craig Brown

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In world mythology, there are countless examples of tragic characters whose greatest strength is also the source of their undoing. But the ancient Greeks and Romans also held the view that acceptance is the beginning of wisdom.
~Simon Van Booy

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Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes.
~Christoph Martin Wieland

One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man’s suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures.
~Denis Diderot

One should never learn from one’s mistakes. Making the same mistakes, over and over again, is a source of unremitting pleasure.
~Peter York

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Yet it looks as if the thing we use to solve our problems with is the source of our problems. It’s like going to the doctor and having him make you ill. In fact, in 20% of medical cases we do apparently have that going on. But in the case of thought, its far over 20%.
~David Bohm

All my indispositions have their source in my mind. It is when I am restless and unhappy that I become susceptible of cold, damp, heats, and such nonsense.
~John Constable

I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive.
~Yoko Ono

Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.
~Dalai Lama

Now I meditate twice a day for half an hour. In meditation, I can let go of everything. I’m not Hugh Jackman. I’m not a dad. I’m not a husband. I’m just dipping into that powerful source that creates everything. I take a little bath in it.
~Hugh Jackman

Meditation is to dive all the way within, beyond thought, to the source of thought and pure consciousness. It enlarges the container, every time you transcend. When you come out, you come out refreshed, filled with energy and enthusiasm for life.
~David Lynch

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one’s self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
~Madame de Stael

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The calm mind allows one to connect with the inner self, the Soul, the very source of our being. That’s where the music lives. That’s where my music comes from.
~Clarence Clemons

A contented mind is the best source for trouble.
~Plautus

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And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of its full and rich resources, had trained me with skill and patience, and had shown me nothing but forbearance and charity when I failed in trust.
~Simon Raven

Which to this day is a source of enormous guilt, because I left with three classes to go in the business school to sign a contract with 20th Century Fox.
~Tom Selleck

If you’re the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you’ve gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure.
~Vin Diesel

Trauma causes us to have an internal experience that is frightening, angry, and shameful. When we feel threatened, as we do when we are traumatized, our entire organism is geared up to find the source of that threat and to do something about it.
~Peter A Levine

Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control.
~Jack Henry Abbott

Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.
~Montgomery Clift

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Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies’ resources, and minimized their own.
~Titus Livius

I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any-after all, most people are unhappy, don’t you think?
~Philip Larkin

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
~Fyodor Dostoevsky

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If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
~Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results.
~Kenneth L Pike

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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
~Herbert Spencer

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The fabled musk deer searches the world over for the source of the scent which comes from itself.
~Ramakrishna

The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.
~Dag Hammarskjold

You aren’t your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family… your anything. You’re a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth.
~Wayne Dyer

You are the God-being that is here to create life, to breathe soul into your body, to walk this world as your own source of power, love, worth and life.
~Joy Page

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If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.
~Leon Kass

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The Dalai Lama has taught me that the best way to live life is to try and avoid desire. Desire is really the basic source of unhappiness.
~Miriam Defensor-Santiago

More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other’s well-being, is source of happiness.
~Dalai Lama

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I never viewed money as being ‘my money’ I always saw it as ‘the money.’ It’s a resource. If it pools up around me then it needs to be flushed back out into the system.
~Louis C K

If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.
~Leon Kass

I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.
~Henry Miller

Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.
~Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Posted From The Grove

The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.
~Newt Gingrich

Whenever people attack not the idea — but its source — you know they’ve hit the brick wall of their intellectual limitations.
~Dr Idel Dreimer

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Ad hominem attacks
Betray an absence of facts.
~Dr Dreimer

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This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at all, by finding ways to encourage legislators to subordinate ambition to principle.
~James L Buckley

I pledge to you today that for as long as I am your governor, I will not seek or accept any outside compensation from any source.
~Kate Brown (Oregon)

I promise not to become a source of shame for you.
~Mikheil Saakashvili

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He’s an innocent in a lot of ways. He’s a very simple person who really doesn’t have the resources or the strength, ultimately, to handle the situation.
~Jared Leto

Politicians constitute the desire for office as a means of gain, being the force of cohesion which keeps leaders and followers together. They have the spirit of self-interest to rouse them and the bridle of fear to check any stirrings of independence. They are organized in rings which are dominated by a Boss. This is the source of immeasurable corruption in public life in the United States
~Edmund Burke

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The thought of security bears within it an essential risk. A state which has security as its sole task and source of legitimacy is a fragile organism; it can always be provoked by terrorism to become more terroristic.
~Giorgio Agamben

Authoritarians have always been here. But the features of a given moment make that way of thinking more or less appealing. Germany in the 1920s, when people are starving, suddenly makes ‘populist’ answers and scapegoating different groups as the source of the problem much more appealing.
~Robert Sapolsky

As long as your ideology identifies the main source of the world’s ills as a definable group, it opens the world up to genocide.
~Steven Pinker

Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms.
~Jiddu Krishnamurti

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The love of independence and dislike of unjust treatment is the source of a thousand virtues.
~William Godwin

Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we’re looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn’t test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
~P J O’Rourke

Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
~Stendhal

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Money is a strange thing. It ranks with love as our greatest source of joy, and with death as our greatest source of anxiety.
~Joe Moore

Wisdom alone is true ambition’s aim,
wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame;
obtained with labour, for mankind employed,
and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
~Alfred North Whitehead

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As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.
~Vaclav Havel

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
~Thomas Carlyle

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Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information.
~P J O’Rourke

The individual source of the statistics may easily be the weakest link.
~Josiah Stamp

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In our excessive involvement in the affairs of other countries, we are not only living off our assets and denying our own people the proper enjoyment of their resources; we are also denying the world the example of a free society enjoying its freedom to the fullest.
~J William Fulbright

Yes, free markets tend to produce unequal incomes. We should not be ashamed of that. On the contrary, our system is the envy of the world and should be a source of pride.
~Arthur C Brooks

Indeed, a major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it… gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
~Milton Friedman

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The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience.
~Lech Walesa

The origin of all revolutions and corruption, and the spur and source of all base morals are just two sayings: The First Saying: ‘So long as I’m full, what is it to me if others die of hunger?’ The Second Saying: ‘You suffer hardship so that I can live in ease; you work so that I can eat.’
~Said Nursi

The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power.
~Paul Wellstone

Listen – of course money changes everything, but so does sunlight, and so does food: These are powerful but neutral energy sources, neither inherently good nor evil but shaped only by the way we use them.
~Elizabeth Gilbert

Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community.
~Kofi Annan

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A strong economy is the source of national strength.
~Yoshihide Suga

A robust economy is a source of national strength for Japan.
~Shinzo Abe

I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source.
~Andrew Johnson

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Like many people, most Libertarians feel empathy and sympathy for less fortunate people. But they know you can’t have perfection in a world of limited resources.
~Harry Browne

A Libertarian society of unfettered individualism spreads its benefits to virtually everyone – not just those who have the resources to seize political power.
~Harry Browne

The Tea Partiers don’t want all regulations eliminated. They just want laws that can be understood and regulations that aren’t going to destroy businesses, or leave deserving veterans without a source for a mortgage loan.
~Neal Boortz

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If we want to reduce poverty and misery, if we want to give to every deserving individual what is needed for a safe existence of an intelligent being, we want to provide more machinery, more power. Power is our mainstay, the primary source of our many-sided energies.
~Nikola Tesla

When coal came into the picture, it took about 50 or 60 years to displace timber. Then crude oil was found, and it took 60, 70 years, and then natural gas. So it takes 100 years or more for some new breakthrough in energy to become the dominant source.
~Rex Tillerson

Further, the United States is moving ahead in the development of clean coal technology. There are vast coal reserves in our country, and when it is burned cleanly, coal can provide a resource to supply a large amount of our energy requirements.
~Virgil Goode

It would be nice if we didn’t have to drill for oil in the gulf. We have this shallow continental shelf on the west coast of Florida, and it would be a real disaster if we had a major oil spill there. It would be wonderful if we could find some other source of energy.
~Eugenie Clark

I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming.
~Stephen Hawking

What the world needs is a small, compact, flexible fusion technology that could make electricity where and when it is needed. The existing fusion program is leading to a huge source of centralized power, at a price that nobody except a government can afford.
~Freeman Dyson

The environmental benefits of hydrogen are also outstanding. When used as an energy source, hydrogen produces no emissions besides water. Zero polluting emissions, an amazing advance over the current sources of energy that we use.
~Dan Lipinski

If we had a hydrogen economy worldwide, every nation on earth could create its own energy source to support its economy, and the threat of war over diminishing resources would just evaporate.
~Dennis Weaver

Triumphant science and technology are only at the threshold of man’s command over sources of energy so stupendous that, if used for military purposes, they can wipe out our entire civilization.
~Cordell Hull

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We should see the leadership from the White House setting dates certain for certain goals of achieving greater alliance on alternative and renewable energy sources, but we are not.
~Ron Kind

Business can be a source of progressive change.
~Jerry Greenfield

Discipline and united action are the real source of strength for the nation.
~Lal Bahadur Shastri

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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.
~Christian Nestell Bovee

Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource.
~Al Gore

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Americans are gathering the courage to just say no. We are saying no to addictive consumer lifestyles. We are saying no to wars and corporate takeover and the IMF loans that gobble up people and their resources.
~Cynthia McKinney

I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace.
~Wangari Maathai

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In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.
~Wangari Maathai

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.
~Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The future belongs to us, because we have taken charge of it. We have the commitment, we have the resourcefulness, and we have the strength of our people to share the dream across Africa…
~Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

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It does not just happen. It is disclosed by science that practically one-half of trained intellectual resources are being mobilized for murderous purposes.
~Alva Myrdal

Bringing an end to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians may help the young Arab generation to realise their aspirations. Israel is more than willing to offer our experience in building a modern economy in spite of limited resources to the whole region.
~Shimon Peres

International legitimacy is a fundamental source of power for Israel nowadays.
~Ehud Barak

I believe we need to attract a new generation of the best and brightest to public service and I believe that government can be a source of inspiration, not degradation.
~Andrew Cuomo

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Police departments no longer have to pay overtime or divert resources from other projects to find out where an individual goes – all they have to do is place a tracking device on someone’s car or ask a cell phone company for that individual’s location history and the technology does the work for them. …that while resource limitations used to discourage the government from tracking you without a good reason, these constraints have largely disappeared.
~Ron Wyden

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The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
~Ludwig von Mises

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History’s a resource.
~Laura Linney

We need to read history from the source.
~Afeni Shakur

There’s no way to escape the culture that has evolved, from which we ourselves have evolved. Naturally, we stress it, break it up, reassemble it to suit our own needs. But it is there ‒ a source of vital strength.
~Wole Soyinka

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To live in the light of a new day and an unimaginable and unpredictable future, you must become fully present to a deeper truth ‒ not a truth from your head, but a truth from your heart; not a truth from your ego, but a truth from the highest source.
~Debbie Ford

This foundational principle ‒ that human beings derive their rights from God, rather than from the State, or any other source ‒ is what made America different.
~Ernie Fletcher

The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.
~Lyndon B Johnson

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The mandate you go with is intimidating and also is a source of respect that you gain, because you have come with this mandate from the United Nations.
~Lakhdar Brahimi (Algerian diplomat and mediator)

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I agree that it is not just the extremists who harbor bad thoughts or engage in bad acts, but they are usually the source of the polarization and try to keep education and communication of the main stream from moving forward.
~Joichi Ito

The Chattanooga killer was inspired by a foreign terror organization. It’s hard to entangle which particular source… there are lots of competing poisons out there.
~James Comey

In my role as Wikileaks editor, I’ve been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep our sources safe, we have had to spread assets, encrypt everything, and move telecommunications and people around the world to activate protective laws in different national jurisdictions.
~Julian Assange

The source known as Deep Throat provided a kind of road map through the scandal. His one consistent message was that the Watergate burglary was just the tip of the iceberg… Using these unnamed sources, if done properly, carefully and fairly, provides more accountability in government.
~Bob Woodward

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I will not, nor will I ever, publicly divulge sensitive intelligence sources and methods. For when that happens, our national security is endangered and lives can be lost.
~John O Brennan

I would never jeopardize classified information to be brought out to the public. This information is all open source. There is no reason to worry about classification. It is simply an attempt by bureaucrats to cover their rear ends.
~Curt Weldon

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Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science, environmental management, government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic.
~James Buchan

I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?
~Robert Redford

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The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they don’t understand what the real problems are.
~Aldrich Ames

Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit.
~William Pollard

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As a global community, we face a choice. Do we want migration to be a source of prosperity and international solidarity, or a byword for inhumanity and social friction?
~Antonio Guterres

Failure to properly control our borders costs citizens in many ways: schools become overcrowded, medical resources are stretched too thin, other government services are overtaxed, and taxes increase further.
~Zach Wamp

Illegal immigration is a genuinely national issue, and resolving it requires a national commitment not just on health care but also border control, law enforcement and other resources.
~Jon Kyl

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Migration powers economic growth, reduces inequalities, and connects diverse societies. Yet it is also a source of political tensions and human tragedies.
~Antonio Guterres

The Republican Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of cheap labor, satisfying a very important constituency… The Democratic Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of voters.
~Tom Tancredo

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Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth – the soil and the labourer.
~Karl Marx

When money is controlled by a few it gives that few an undue power and control over labor and the resources of the country. Labor will have its best return when the laborer can control its disposal.
~Leland Stanford

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I am telling you, as a president of the country, I do not find it a mistake to listen to you and to respond to your requests and demands. But it is shameful and I will not, nor will ever accept to hear foreign dictations, whatever the source might be or whatever the context it came in.
~Hosni Mubarak (Egypt)

Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.
~Sam Houston

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The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.
~Lyndon B Johnson

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Basically, in the fight-or-flight response, the objective is to get away from the source of threat. All of our muscles prepare for this escape by increasing their tension level, our heart rate and respiration increase, and our whole basic metabolic system is flooded with adrenaline.
~Peter A Levine

So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it.
~James Dickey

We cannot be any stronger in our foreign policy for all the bombs and guns we may heap up in our arsenals than we are in the spirit which rules inside the country. Foreign policy, like a river, cannot rise above its source.
~Adlai Stevenson

I believe activism is the true source of change in the world. Pushing to change social structures in communities that you are a part of is critical for making real lasting change.
~Marley Dias

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Many states rely on sales tax as their principle source of revenue and do not have a State income tax.
~William L Jenkins

The biggest source of getting the country to a balanced budget is not by raising taxes or by cutting spending. It’s by encouraging the growth of the economy.
~Mitt Romney

A thriving middle class is the source of growth in a technological, capitalist economy. Investing in the middle class is the most pro-business thing you can do.
~Nick Hanauer

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.
~H L Mencken

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…’s candidacy has been a source of anxiety for many reasons, but one stands out: the ability of the president to launch nuclear weapons. When it comes to starting a nuclear war, the president has more freedom than he or she does in, say, ordering the use of torture.
~Lawrence M Krauss

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The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one important source of this Anglo-Saxon distaste for highbrows and eggheads was the French revolution, which was seen as an attempt to reconstruct society on the basis of abstract rational principles.
~Terry Eagleton

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Little by little, not without astonishment, I rediscovered the great names of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, who had been the master thinkers of my grandfather and other Mexican liberals. They did no offer me a doctrine or a catechism: they were and they are a source, an inspiration.
~Octavio Paz

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Well, Nigeria has played a constructive role in peacekeeping in various parts of West Africa. But unless and until Nigeria itself is democratic and respects human rights, it too may well be a source of much greater instability as political repression limits the ability of the people of Nigeria to achieve their full potential.
~Susan Rice

The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom; second, that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous; and third, that there is little the world’s democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries.
~Natan Sharansky

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The Court’s legitimacy arises from the source of its authority ‒ which is, of course, the Constitution ‒ and is best preserved by adhering to decision methods that neither expand nor contract but legitimize the power of judicial review.
~Diane S Sykes

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On September 11 2001, America felt its vulnerability even to threats that gather on the other side of the Earth. We resolved then, and we are resolved today, to confront every threat from any source that could bring sudden terror and suffering to America.
~George W Bush

We can choose a future where we export more products and outsource fewer jobs. After a decade that was defined by what we bought and borrowed, we’re getting back to basics, and doing what America has always done best: We’re making things again.
~Barack Obama

What’s right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity – intellect and resources – to do some thing about them.
~Henry Ford

We are special because we’ve been united not by a common race or ethnicity. We’re bound together by common values. That family is the most important institution in society. That almighty God is the source of all we have.
~Marco Rubio

America is moving forward and gaining strength. We have been tested, and we have proven ourselves to be a tough, resilient and resourceful nation.
~Bill Frist

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~QuickFlirt.com: Online dating tips (3:08) starts cute, quickly gets practical

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Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
~Bill Gates

As a country, we can do better. Our home should be a source of stability, not insecurity. This issue is personal for me… even with a steady paycheck, I couldn’t pay rent.
~Kane Brown

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Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow – after you have done your best to achieve success today.
~Maxwell Maltz

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.
~Robert South

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If your work becomes a source of enjoyment and a challenge, it will never seem like work ‒ it will be fun. If you ever feel that your work is a burden, there is no point carrying on with it.
~Kapil Dev

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I have a simple plan to solve the economic crisis. Give every American a $100 credit to the dog track of their choice. I have found the puppies to be a reliable source of income with a consistent rate of return.
~Willie Geist

My source of income is sports betting. I have some investments also.
~James Holzhauer

Cock-fighting, which has attained to the dignity of a literature of its own, is the popular Malay sport; but the grand sport is a tiger and buffalo fight, reserved for rare occasions, however, on account of its expense. Cock-fighting is a source of gigantic gambling and desperate feuds.
~Isabella Bird

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I feel like, as an industry, we’ve gotten too dependent on source material originated in other mediums.
~Travis Beacham

I have a great respect for the academics who are working with the source material. My hat’s off to them.
~Terri Windling

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Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.
~Denis Waitley

A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area’s workforce, reducing the cost of doing business and making available the resources business needs to compete and thrive in today’s global economy.
~Rod Blagojevich

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Housing wealth ‒ the net equity held by households, consisting of the value of their homes minus their mortgage debt ‒ is the most important source of wealth for all but those at the very top.
~Janet Yellen

Labor is the source of all wealth and all culture.
~Ferdinand Lassalle

The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.
~Charles Babbage

Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.
~Hesiod

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The lack of a consistent policy from major economies is the main source of volatility.
~Urjit Patel

The gas, which is our main source of power, is priced in dollars.
~Aliko Dangote (Nigeria)

Right now the problem in Thailand is we have high debt, but we don’t know how to earn the new source of revenue back to Thailand. This is my job.
~Yingluck Shinawatra

Gorilla tourism is vital to Rwanda’s economy: It’s the third highest source of income.
~Andy Serkis

Our main source of economy is agriculture. What we should do is to use the oil money that we have today to re-fuel agriculture. And so agriculture will be the backbone of the economy of South Sudan.
~Salva Kiir Mayardit

Tunisia will continue to be a source of influence, not through its size but through the ideas and the models that it represents.
~Rashid al-Ghannushi

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African art is functional, it serves a purpose. It’s not a dormant. It’s not a means to collect the largest cheering section. It should be healing, a source a joy. Spreading positive vibrations.
~Mos Def

I’ve always been interested in any kind of great music, and African music is, I think, the source of it all.
~Jack Bruce

Here’s the key to Jamaica, the secret to Jamaican dancehall parties, no matter where you are in the world. If you do not see Japanese people, you’re at the wrong party. They source authenticity like no other culture I’ve ever seen.
~Walshy Fire

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Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital ‒ the world’s best talents and greatest ideas.
~Jack Welch (GE)

Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages.
~Ernest Holmes

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With colleagues in the work environment, we fail to see the source of their envy or the reason for their manipulations; our attempts at influencing them are based on the assumptions that they want the same things as ourselves.
~Robert Greene

Few things kill likeability as quickly as arrogance. Likable leaders don’t act as though they’re better than you because they don’t think that they’re better than you. Rather than being a source of prestige, they see their leadership position as bringing them additional accountability for serving those who follow them.
~Travis Bradberry

The energy you create around you is perhaps going to be the most important attribute ‒ in the long run, EQ trumps IQ. Without being a source of energy for others, very little can be accomplished.
~Satya Nadella

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You get the health benefits of coffee up through about the first twenty-four ounces. It’s the biggest source of antioxidants for Americans, and we think it helps prevent Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s as well.
~Mehmet Oz

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Education is the source of that spiritual equilibrium on which everything else depends and which may be compared to that physical equilibrium or sense of balance, without which it is impossible to stand upright or to move into any other position.
~Maria Montessori

The purest case of an intelligence explosion would be an Artificial Intelligence rewriting its own source code. The key idea is that if you can improve intelligence even a little, the process accelerates. It’s a tipping point. Like trying to balance a pen on one end ‒ as soon as it tilts even a little, it quickly falls the rest of the way.
~Eliezer Yudkowsky

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Companies have been trying to figure out what it is that makes open source work.
~Brian Behlendorf

I often compare open source to science. To where science took this whole notion of developing ideas in the open and improving on other peoples’ ideas and making it into what science is today and the incredible advances that we have had. And I compare that to witchcraft and alchemy, where openness was something you didn’t do.
~Linus Torvalds

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Open platforms historically undergo a lot of scrutiny, but there are a lot of advantages to having an open source from a security standpoint.
~Sundar Pichai

I think, fundamentally, open source does tend to be more stable software. It’s the right way to do things.
~Linus Torvalds

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In open source, we feel strongly that to really do something well, you have to get a lot of people involved.
~Linus Torvalds

Empowerment of individuals is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovations tend to come from small groups, not from large, structured efforts.
~Tim O’Reilly

The free sharing and teaching of open source is incompatible with the notion of the solitary genius.
~Golan Levin

In real open source, you have the right to control your own destiny.
~Linus Torvalds

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School was a big source of anxiety for me. I hated school. I have social anxiety, and it developed when I was a kid. I had trouble going to birthday parties. It was always there. I begged my mom to let me be home-schooled at one point for a semester because I was so miserable at school.
~Lili Reinhart

Aware that his disappointment has its source in a defective education, he looks with anxiety on his other daughters, whose minds, like lovely buds, are beginning to open. Where shall he find a genial soil in which he may place them to expand?
~Emma Willard

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
~Alvin Toffler

The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children; and asks that they be prepared… to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.
~Shirley Hufstedler

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
~John F Kennedy

The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true purpose of education, truth and justice.
~Anne Sullivan Macy

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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
~Bertrand Russell

The process of spotting fear and refusing to obey it is the source of all true empowerment.
~Martha Beck

I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We have to devote a significant proportion of our time and resources to defending it from deliberate attack from organised ignorance.
~Richard Dawkins

Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.
~Victor Cousin

At the end, ignorance is the source of biases. If we cure that, there’s nothing to fear and hate.
~Daryl Davis

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When what we introduce into the children’s world of ideas and feelings is in line with the direction of the developmental forces of a given stage of life, we strengthen the entire developing person in a way that remains a source of strength throughout that person’s life.
~Rudolf Steiner

I think it is important for children to read different things to find out about their emotions and other people’s emotions. It is an enormous source of education and culture.
~Quentin Blake

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The only source of knowledge is experience.
~Albert Einstein

I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth.
~Thomas Malthus

But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
~Muhammad Iqbal

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.
~Thomas Berger

But man has still another powerful resource: natural science with its strictly objective methods.
~Ivan Pavlov

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Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
~Linus Pauling

An understanding of the natural world and what’s in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.
~David Attenborough

Most young people find botany a dull study. So it is, as taught from the text-books in the schools; but study it yourself in the fields and woods, and you will find it a source of perennial delight.
~John Burroughs

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I find Facebook absolutely fascinating because I don’t think there’s ever been any one source that had so much information about each of us ‒ who we talk to, who our friends are, what books we read, what we’re buying, what movies we saw, what our travel is.
~Rick Smolan

Technology steers what 2 billion people are thinking and believing every day. It’s possibly the largest source of influence over 2 billion people’s thoughts that has ever been created. Religions and governments don’t have that much influence over people’s daily thoughts.
~Tristan Harris

The open source nature of the Internet is both a blessing and a curse, because just as much as we can watch what’s happening around the world, we can also be watched.
~Alicia Garza

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Technology is like water; it wants to find its level. So if you hook up your computer to a billion other computers, it just makes sense that a tremendous share of the resources you want to use – not only text or media but processing power too – will be located remotely.
~Marc Andreessen

If you could utilize the resources of the end users’ computers, you could do things much more efficiently.
~Niklas Zennstrom

I don’t immerse myself in the Internet chatter because it opens you up to a whole source of danger.
~Zachary Quinto

The naturalist worldview is a good way to feel grounded and feel part of something that isn’t based on fairy tales. It’s based on observable facts in the human and in the biological history of the planet. I think that can be a source for comfort.
~Greg Graffin

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It is extraordinary the extent to which Darwin’s insights not only changed his contemporaries’ view of the world but also continue to be a source of great intellectual stimulation for scientists and nonscientists alike.
~James D Watson

I can’t think of any other region in the world which is such a vast source of fossils.
~Richard Leakey (Kenya’s Lake Turkana)

The ocean is the source of life. We all come from there. I think about these one-celled creatures, and I think about the planet. It is related to my obsession with biology, even if it’s only a layperson’s obsession. The way I visualise what’s at the bottom of the ocean is very much to do with how I feel when I’m swimming in the sea.
~Wangechi Mutu

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Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.
~Walter Lippmann

Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.
~Garrett Hardin

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.
~R Buckminster Fuller

We assume that everything’s becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that’s true; our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources.
~Paul Hawken

In the history of America, we’ve never had an energy plan. We don’t even realize the resources we have available to us.
~T Boone Pickens

I mean, there is amazing amount of oil and gas and other resources out beneath the sea. It’s staggering.
~Robert Ballard

Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.
~Bill Gates

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We assume that everything’s becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that’s true; our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources.
~Paul Hawken

In Israel, a land lacking in natural resources, we learned to appreciate our greatest national advantage: our minds. Through creativity and innovation, we transformed barren deserts into flourishing fields and pioneered new frontiers in science and technology.
~Shimon Peres

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And, in fact, you can find that the lack of basic resources, material resources, contributes to unhappiness, but the increase in material resources do not increase happiness.
~Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

If we do not change our negative habits toward climate change, we can count on worldwide disruptions in food production, resulting in mass migration, refugee crises and increased conflict over scarce natural resources like water and farm land. This is a recipe for major security problems.
~Michael Franti

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§ VIDEO:

And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of its full and rich resources, had trained me with skill and patience, and had shown me nothing but forbearance and charity when I failed in trust.
~Simon Raven

If you’re the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you’ve gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure.
~Vin Diesel

Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control.
~Jack Henry Abbott

Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.
~Montgomery Clift

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It’s easier to play a dim character, for me, because I have a natural bent for comedy. It’s not intrinsic for me to be crafty, so I would have to go outside for a source of origin. I think of myself as pretty dim.
~Stephen Root

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For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing – stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses – makes more money for me than making movies.
~Jackie Chan

Captain Kirk has been a source of pleasure and income for a long time.
~William Shatner

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One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.
~Edward de Bono

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Old images and films are my main source of inspiration.
~Emilia Wickstead

Robert Osborne either has the best job in the world, or comes very close. As millions of viewers know, Osborne is the resident host of the great Turner Classic Movies (TCM) channel, the most reliable source of pure enchantment in the cable universe.
~Tom Shales

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But, ancient Greece and ancient Rome ‒ people did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings back then, OK? People believed that creativity was this divine attendant spirit that came to human beings from some distant and unknowable source, for distant and unknowable reasons.
~Elizabeth Gilbert

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Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It’s the same with me and writing.
~Wayne Dyer

Proficiency in a craft is essential to every artist. Therein lies the prime source of creative imagination. Let us then create a new guild of craftsmen without the class distinctions that raise an arrogant barrier between craftsman and artist!
~Walter Gropius

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~Joseph Wallace Productions: Salvation Has No Name (18:40) animated, the stuff and source of legends

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~Michael Rees: Middle Sized Things (15:21) late getting to it, but comes together at the end

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The ‘Fake News Alert’ Chrome extension, created by ‘New York Magazine‘ journalist Brian Feldman, identifies hoax news articles. However, cutting out fake news source entirely from operating is easier said than done, since anyone with internet access can create fake news.
~Fabrizio Moreira

In the news feed on your phone, all stories look the same ‒ whether they come from a credible source or not.
~Katharine Viner

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I think a lot of the people who feel out of step with contemporary society or feel that they’ve been left back economically or feel disaffected and are drawn to the Republican Party, they are looking for a news source that will tell them something they would like to hear and then is reassuring, emotionally rewarding, and confirming.
~Sheldon Whitehouse

You need, in order to run a country as diverse as ours, a prominently recognized news source.
~Tucker Carlson

If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.
~Thomas Sowell

I think the idea of creating a television news source that is not beholden to corporate interests is nirvana.
~Phil Donahue

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If I see something dubious, say on a blog or a Web site, and I don’t see it anywhere else, I’ll just go right to the source and check it out.
~Al Michaels

You shouldn’t use anything as the sole source for anything, in my view.
~Jimmy Wales

If you have an anecdote from one source, you file it away. If you hear it again, it may be true. Then the more times you hear it the less likely it is to be true.
~Anthony Holden

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There is no higher claim to journalistic integrity than going to jail to protect a source.
~Thomas Frank

There’s plenty to criticize about the mass media, but they are the source of regular information about a wide range of topics. You can’t duplicate that on blogs.
~Noam Chomsky

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After aircraft production, the entertainment industry is America’s largest source of trade surplus.
~Tyler Cowen

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In general, what fans talk about and think about become a very important source of inspiration to us, because we want to write something that’s real to people, especially those who listen to BTS music.
~Suga

As with any moderately famous person, footballers are the source of much gossip. In fact, I’d go as far as to say they are targeted. The fun part as their partner is not knowing who, or what, to believe.
~Zoe Foster Blake

By virtue of some of the ways the game is played, in terms of message discipline, in terms of access for reporters, and especially in the way that sources and subjects, especially famous subjects, treat the media, almost by default there’s more news that’s falling into books.
~Ron Suskind

Having fans wherever I go gives me an energy, and it is the source of my power.
~Rain

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I just constantly tell myself that I should be the only one to define my worth and what I’m capable of and how I perceive myself. And that I should never source that worth from other people, especially strangers on social media. They don’t know who I am, the length of my journey, who I am as a person.
~Catriona Gray

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Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.
~Michelangelo

The body, in ‘La Belle Noiseuse,’ was the source of the artist’s creativity.
~Emmanuelle Beart

I wish we didn’t have to be nude to be noticed… But given the game as it exists, women make decisions. For instance, the Miss America contest is, in all of its states… the single greatest source of scholarship money for women in the United States.
~Caterina Fake

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The beauty of a finely worked object points to the beauty of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the craftsmanship points to the beauty of the name which was the source of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the name of the craftsman’s art points to the beauty of the craftsman’s attributes manifested in that art.
~Said Nursi

(Ed Note: Unwrap that, if you will)

Thoughts are fine when you don’t confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.
~Eckhart Tolle

Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles.
~Albert Camus

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Methinks that the moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow, as if I had given vent to the stream at the lower end and consequently new fountains flowed into the upper. A thousand rills which have their rise in the sources of thought burst forth and fertilize my brain… Only while we are in action is the circulation perfect.
~Henry David Thoreau

A taste for literature is one of the most substantial sources of enjoyment with which the human race is acquainted…. In opulence or poverty, whether free to roam over the world or confined in a prison—still, if he has within his reach a few favorite authors, he can banish the troubles and trials of the present, and be happy within the world of mind.
~Charles Lanman

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§ MUSIC:

Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher than himself.
~John Philip Sousa

After it’s finished, sometimes I can trace a path that goes back to the possible source of inspiration.
~Tracy Chapman

I don’t get my inspiration from a specific source. It’s more like if you listen to a good tune, it gives me inspiration to write a better tune.
~Rain

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I played with the same band for years and years and there’s a beauty to having one solid core that you keep exploring. On the other hand, it’s nice to throw yourself in different situations where you find out things about your own resources.
~Grant-Lee Phillips

I think when I began, I played distortion more than the guitar. The results of my strumming. Now I play the twang of the string, which is a lot closer to the source of the sound making.
~Ian Williams

Music itself is a great source of relaxation. Parts of it anyway. Working in the studio, that’s not relaxing, but playing an instrument that I don’t know how to play is unbelievably relaxing, because I don’t have any pressure on me.
~Jackson Browne

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No voice teacher can be all things to all people. You have to gain information from whatever sources you can. You have to listen.
~Renee Fleming

Whether it’s music or acting, that creativity all comes from the same source.
~Idris Elba

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First of all, I want people to understand that I’m here to create for them. To create music for people so they’ll know that I’m a source of love. And they can depend on my name.
~Brian Wilson

For some, music is a limitless source of cheap content, just waiting to be exploited.
~Mick Hucknall

Actually, I feel music becoming more and more important. It’s a big source of inspiration. With what’s going on in the world, we feel almost desperate. Music also brings you peace.
~Cecilia Bartoli

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We all shared an admiration of Debussy both as a musician and as sort of an icon for the 20th century. It seemed like an interesting idea to go right back 100 years to find the source of some new ideas now.
~Anne Dudley

If you want to find the source of much of the music of modern day Russia, you will find it in the incredible compositions of that crazed lunatic Berlioz.
~Ray Bradbury

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The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.
~Havelock Ellis

It’s my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so why not eliminate what you don’t need as long as you’re able to achieve the same result?
~Helmut Jahn

I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.
~Tadao Ando

Rich men’s houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.
~Margot Asquith

The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line… Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression.
~Arthur Erickson

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What young men nowadays don’t realise is that ballroom dancing can be such a source of enjoyment.
~Brian Clough

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Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
~Balthus

Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.
~Jackson Pollock

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It is a standing source of astonishment and amusement to visitors that the British Museum has so few British things in it: that it is a museum about the world as seen from Britain rather than a history focused on these islands.
~Neil MacGregor

Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts.
~Laura Riding

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It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents.
~Eric Hoffer

Advertising has always been a huge unrecognised source of outdoor relief for the arts.
~Peter York

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~The Blaze: MADLY (6:27) unsure if a music video, a love poem, or dance party

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~Kazuhiro Hotaru: Source of Wind (3:05) no video, soothing drone

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~Nadia Birkenstock: A la Source (1:40) Celtic Harp Solo

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~beetlebug: a letter from a notable source (3:06) dreamy invitation to read

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~InxMamuYT: Adiyogi_ The Source of Yoga (4:08) ethereal takes you there

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The big relationships you make in your life are with those that you love and if things do go wrong then it’s a source of great pain and that lasts.
~Michael Morpurgo

Whoever named the ruby-throated hummingbird had little regard for the females of the species, since only the male has a ruby throat. Perhaps the name emerged when it was noted that the males of the species have but a very brief courtship with the females and then leave their spouses to raise their young without assistance… Not only that, but once the mating time is over, the humming Lotharios actually chase away their erstwhile mates from sources of nectar!
~R D Lawrence

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Concupiscence [desire] and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.
~Blaise Pascal

Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend, its swift and irresistible helper in its serious need, and an indulgent minister to its lighter fancies.
~Richard Le Gallienne

…because two bodies, naked and entwined, leap over time, they are invulnerable, nothing can touch them, they return to the source. There is no you, no I, no tomorrow, no yesterday, no names, the truth of two in a single body, a single soul, oh total being…
~Octavio Paz

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There’s a reason why anger, fear, and hatred are paths to the dark side: they all spring from a single source ‒ the same source as a certain flavor of love. A dangerously sweet, addictive flavor.
~Matthew Stover

If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.
~Anthony Storr

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
~Eric Hoffer

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish it’s source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
~Anais Nin

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The basis for all human relationships and where we derive our greatest strength and power, trust is single-handedly the most powerful source of positive energy and, once in place, unlocks a freedom and peace to explore.
~Angela Ahrendts

For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it’s time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.
~Erma Bombeck

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
~Samuel Johnson

When love is pure, it has the power to conquer. Lover and beloved conquer each other by their affection. The source, the essence, the fullest manifestation of love’s conquering power is the love of the soul for the supreme soul, or God.
~Radhanath Swami

By building relations we create a source of love and personal pride and belonging that makes living in a chaotic world easier.
~Susan Lieberman

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I was very down as a teenager, very upset because I had gotten hurt in a car accident. But my dad was a source of strength. He used to say, ‘It’s the character with strength that God gives the most challenges to.’ I’ve thought about that so many times in my life when things didn’t go right.
~Bonnie Hunt

It’s a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.
~Daniel Day-Lewis

I am proud of my kids and happy to brag about their achievements. Their success has been an immense source of happiness for me.
~Naveen Jain

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From my foster parents, the Deans, I received the love that was ultimately to strengthen me, even when I had forgotten its source. It was my foster mother, a half-Indian, half-German woman, who taught me to read, though she herself was barely literate. I remember her reading to me every day from ‘True Romance’ magazine.
~Walter Dean Myers

I grew up with very elegant parents; their black and white photographs and style are still a huge source of inspiration in designing my collections.
~Tory Burch

My dad is my biggest source of inspiration. He’s a lawyer, and when he’d get home, we always sat down and listened to music.
~Dan Reynolds

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It was a source of shame for my family that I was in rock and roll, which is so blue-collar. It just isn’t done. And I felt it, too.
~Liz Phair

`I had to get in touch with the source, I had to go back into my abandonment issues with my mother, I had to go into issues with my father I hadn’t even looked at before.
~Kenny Loggins

Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family.
~Jerry B Jenkins

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

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Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.
~Edmund Leach

More than any other setting – more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel – I’ll put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and intrigue.
~Joyce Maynard

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When we protect children from every possible source of danger, we also prevent them from having the kinds of experiences that develop their sense of self-reliance, their ability to assess and mitigate risk, and their sense of accomplishment.
~Gever Tulley

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What are my sources of strength? My husband and my three kids, my health-care team, and my religion.
~Geraldine Ferraro

I wouldn’t trade anything for family time. To me, it is more important than everything else, and I have a very deep-rooted belief in it, which is influenced by my Jewish faith. That’s a very great source of who I am and what I believe in.
~Felicity Kendal

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My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me.
~Katherine Heigl

Being a father has been, without a doubt, my greatest source of achievement, pride and inspiration. Fatherhood has taught me about unconditional love, reinforced the importance of giving back and taught me how to be a better person.
~Naveen Jain

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The safest person, sometimes, is a stranger on the Internet who lives in a different place. If they’re a daily source of support and advice, no one really wants to lose that once they have it. If they know deep down that the person they’re talking to isn’t exactly who they say they are, it’s not worth finding out.
~Max Joseph

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
~Thomas Aquinas

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The dog can only become what’s in your bubble. The dog is imitating the energy that is in your bubble. You are the source, the feast of energy. If you feel anxious, the dog becomes anxious with you. If you become nervous, the dog wakes up nervous with you.
~Cesar Millan

The intuitive connection children feel with animals can be a tremendous source of joy. The unconditional love received from pets, and the lack of artifice in the relationship, contrast sharply with the much trickier dealings with members of their own species.
~Frans de Waal

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A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.
~Carl Jung

You could make a case that women addicted men to their sexuality and then withdrew their sexuality until we provided them with a source of income.
~Warren Farrell

The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.
~Lucretia Mott

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From every ancient source, we have testimony to Cleopatra’s irresistible charm, as Plutarch has it, to her ability to speak many languages including, as he puts it, the language of flattery and essentially, to be able to turn people to her will ‒ really a great political genius, in that respect.
~Stacy Schiff

You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel you know, like the font and the essence and the source of all divine, creative, unknowable, eternal mystery is just a smidge too much responsibility to put on one fragile, human psyche. It’s like asking somebody to swallow the sun.
~Elizabeth Gilbert

There’s no way I can represent for everyone. I can’t represent for all women or all big women or all black women. It’s important for people not to make celebrities their source of who they should be in life. I can’t take on the pressure of being perfect. Nobody is.
~Queen Latifah

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As hard as it is, owning who you are and knowing what you want is the only sure path to affirmation… I want women to know they can get out of any situation if they return to their core source of strength: themselves.
~Ashley Graham

“Apologizing when we have done something wrong is a real strength, but compulsive apologizing presents as a weakness at work and in personal relationships.” It’s time for women to kick the apology habit and take their power back…
~Tara Swart, w/ Caroline Castrillon

My mom was a source of strength. She showed me by example that women, regardless of how difficult life may get, can do it all.
~Gloria Estefan

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Scientists will eventually stop flailing around with solar power and focus their efforts on harnessing the only truly unlimited source of energy on the planet: stupidity. I predict that in the future, scientists will learn how to convert stupidity into clean fuel.
~Scott Adams

A plumber is an adventurer who traces leaky pipes to their source.
~Arthur Baer

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Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
~Mark Twain

There’s always a source for humor.
~Calvin Trillin

So that’s why one of my rules of parody writing is that it’s gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.
~Al Yankovic

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Comedy should be a source of positivity. I don’t want to bully people, and I don’t want people to come to my show to feel terrible about something. So I’m actually very open to having a conversation about what I should or shouldn’t say.
~Bo Burnham

Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.
~James Thurber

Having a sense of humor is a part of being courageous. It’s a source of strength.
~Kerry Kennedy

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To live forever should not be an obligation. In fact, eternal life should only be for those who wish for it, because if we are depressed and unhappy with our lives, just the idea of living forever is an unbearable source of suffering.
~Claude Vorilhon

Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
~Sophocles

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A human being has been given an intellect to make choices, and we know there are other food sources that do not require the killing of a creature that would protest being killed.
~Mary Tyler Moore

Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world’s resources. A vegetarian diet is better.
~Nicholas Stern

Food production is ripping the living world apart. Fishing and farming are, by a long way, the greatest cause of extinction and loss of the diversity and abundance of wildlife. Farming is a major cause of climate breakdown, the biggest cause of river pollution and a hefty source of air pollution.
~George Monbiot

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Processed foods cause inflammation, a source of most chronic illnesses as well as stress.
~Kris Carr

The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases.
~Edward Jenner

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Locally produced foods ‒ defined as those harvested within a 100-mile radius of one’s home ‒ have a lesser impact on the environment because of the decreased need for transportation from source to consumer.
~Tyler Florence

We’ve gotten so far away from our food source. It’s been hijacked from us. But if you get soil, plant something in it and water it, you can feed yourself. It’s that simple.
~Ron Finley

All those spices and herbs in your spice rack can do more than provide calorie-free, natural flavorings to enhance and make food delicious. They’re also an incredible source of antioxidants and help rev up your metabolism and improve your health at the same time.
~Suzanne Somers

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Rocket scientists agree that we have about reached the limit of our ability to travel in space using chemical rockets. To achieve anything near the speed of light we will need a new energy source and a new propellant. Nuclear fission is not an option.
~Wilson Greatbatch

I think that somebody with the resources and innovation and the idea is going to come out of nowhere and come up with a successful space travel program.
~Kevin J Anderson

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We carry stores of DNA in our nuclei that may have come in, at one time or another, from the fusion of ancestral cells and the linking of ancestral organisms in symbiosis. Our genomes are catalogues of instructions from all kinds of sources in nature, filed for all kinds of contingencies.
~Lewis Thomas

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
~Isaac Newton

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Canyon Smoke

© Silvia Trujillo

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There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.
~Brigham Young

Ideas, like large rivers, never have just one source.
~Willy Ley

Chance alone is at the source of all novelty, all creation in the biosphere.
~Jacques Monod

I am suspicious of writers who say their work is original and influenced by nobody. If it is, it is probably uninteresting. The biggest source of novels is other novels.
~Teju Cole

Originality is the art of concealing your source.
~Franklin P Jones

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The source and center of all man’s creative power… is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.
~Robert Collier

The imagination is a pretty precious source of protection.
~Nicholas Ray

Ideas are all around you ‒ everything gives you ideas. But the real source is the part of your brain that dreams.
~Bruce Coville

The visionary imagination is the source of art and religion.
~Alex Grey

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I don’t believe in ‘thinking’ old. Although I’ve transitioned through many bodies ‒ a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult ‒ my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life.
~Wayne Dyer

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
~Sophia Loren

The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.
~Daisaku Ikeda

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Silence is a source of great strength.
~Lao Tzu

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The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.
~Sigmund Freud

No one wants to be a source of anxiety to everybody they know.
~John Cooper Clarke

…character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.
~Joan Didion,

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The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.
~Daniel Dennett

We need to reach that happy stage of our development when differences and diversity are not seen as sources of division and distrust, but of strength and inspiration.
~Josefa Iloilo

It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.
~Pierre Bayle

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The source of all the material comes from nothingness, illusion is working more on things you can prove. That’s the principle, the essence of life, it is actually an illusion, not immaterial. That’s worth pursuing. So illusion is not nothing. In a way, that is the truth.
~Ang Lee

Consciousness, rather than being an epiphenomenon of matter, is actually the source of matter. It differentiates into space time, energy, information, and matter. Even though this view is an ancient view, an ancient world view, it is now finding some resonance amongst a few scientists.
~Deepak Chopra

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
~Nhat Hanh

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Ambition is a very dangerous thing because either you achieve it and your life ends prematurely, or you don’t, in which case your life is a constant source of disappointment. You must never have ambition.
~Jeremy Clarkson

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.
~Oliver Goldsmith

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.
~Stephen Ambrose

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
~Peter Drucker

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@Writers Platform

An obsession with untold stories is a source of energy.
~Greil Marcus

I write to relieve an intellectual itch. I stumble across a hitherto neglected set of events, transformations, characters, or source materials from the past, and they nag at me until I make sense of them in words. But I also write to seduce and to make my readers think.
~Linda Colley

I would come to understand there is no poem separable from its source. I began to see that poems are not just an individual florescence. They are also a vast root system growing down into ideas and understandings. Almost unbidden, they tap into the history and evolution of art and language.
~Eavan Boland

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In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects.
~Jorge Luis Borges

The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness.
~Muriel Rukeyser

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.
~A R Ammons

Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country. It has no energy crisis, possessing a potential that will last as long as the country. Its power is equal to that of any country in the world.
~Richard Eberhart

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Readership was high, and very attentive. It was people’s only source of knowledge about the world.
~Ryszard Kapuscinski

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I believe that the best cameraman is one who recognizes the source, the story, as the basis of his work.
~James Wong Howe

A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit.
~Graham Greene

Entertainment history is now the main source of supposedly historical knowledge for more and more people, but ‘histo-tainment’ is superficial and lacks all context.
~Antony Beevor

We went into this with the utmost respect for the source material, but we recognized the need for change.
~Sam Wood

Whether one likes it or not, the screen is a profoundly important source of imagery and storytelling for this generation. For me, books remain a stunning place to tell stories, but the screen has a place.
~Graeme Base

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My main source of reading is scripts, which doesn’t leave a whole lot of room for books.
~Josh Hutcherson

Almost every script that I’ve gotten has been for sort of the generic Hollywood type. I haven’t chosen them. All the ones I have chosen are because I’ve been fascinated with the source material or because of the script.
~Ben Barnes

Whether you’re Godard or Almodovar or Scorsese, it’s text, text, text. Everything begins with the text, and this is a source of great anguish to me. So please let cinema get on with doing what it does best, which is expressing ideas in visual terms.
~Peter Greenaway

On stage, you’re not limited at all because you’re free in language: language is the source of the imagination. You can travel farther in language than you can in any film.
~Sam Shepard

Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can’t portray when you’re acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel.
~Amanda Seyfried

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Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.
~Wallace Stevens

Historical grammar is a study of how, say, modern English developed from Middle English, and how that developed from Early and Old English, and how that developed from Germanic, and that developed from what’s called Proto-Indo-European, a source system that nobody speaks, so you have to try to reconstruct it.
~Noam Chomsky

Your source material is the people you know, not those you don’t know, but every character is an extension of the author’s own personality.
~Edward Albee

Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.
~Horace Moral

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The muse, the beloved, and duende [passion/inspiration] are three ways of thinking of what is the source of poetry, and all three seem to me different names or different ways to think about something that is not entirely reasonable, not entirely subject to the will, not entirely rational.
~Edward Hirsch

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I just enjoyed telling stories. I enjoyed watching films and reading and becoming someone else. I spent a lot of time on my own when I was younger; I enjoyed my own company and still do, so it was a source of escapism.
~Tuppence Middleton

I lead a very conventional life. I don’t lead a writer’s life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people. This was more true when I was living in California, when I didn’t lead a writer’s life at all.
~Joan Didion

I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet’s personality.
~Mark Strand

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I’ve got my whole life. There’s a lifetime of experience, a lifetime of experiencing the road and the music and different players. It makes me a richer human being. I have a greater source of information to tap into, a wealth of life.
~Rita Coolidge

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Prewritten Prompt: source

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The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
~Joseph Conrad

Evil is a source of moral intelligence in the sense that we need to learn from our shadow, from our dark side, in order to be good.
~John Bradshaw

There is no possible source of evil except good.
~Saint Augustine

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.
~Samuel Butler

You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
~Maimonides

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For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of the reflections.
~Peace Pilgrim

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The solution to putting an end to bullying is to stop it at the source but also to find out what is causing the person to behave the way that they do.
~Hunter King

Most people are not good people. In business, in art, in almost every ‘world’ I’ve been in, most people I’ve meet are pretty gray to black. It takes practice to be the person who is a source of compassion and honesty.
~James Altucher

Kindness is more than a virtue. It is a source of strength… Emotions are a source of power, and that’s what science tells us. But many people I encounter have been led to think of emotions as a source of weakness.
~Vivek Murthy

Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.
~Rollo May

Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.
~Charles William Eliot

The only true source of politeness is consideration.
~William Gilmore Simms

Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military power, global authority, flow from a surprising source: our ability to give thanks.
~Tony Snow

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A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow.
~Paracelsus

Two urns on Jove’s high throne have ever stood,
the source of evil one, and one of good;
from thence the cup of mortal man he fills,
blessings to these, to those distributes ills;
to most he mingles both.
~Homer

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Was Judas Iscariot a figure of history? I do not think so. There is no mention of him in any source before the 8th decade.
~John Shelby Spong

Space, time, matter, energy and biological life may be the result of a Source Field that is conscious and alive in its own unique way ‒ on a scale far too vast for the finite mind to fathom.
~David Wilcock

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Man is ever searching for the source whence he has come, searching for the life which is upwelling within him, immortal, nay, eternal and divine; and every religion is the answer from the Universal Spirit to the seeking spirits of men that came forth from Him.
~Annie Besant

Various religious systems have been given to humanity at different times, each suited to meet the spiritual needs of the people among whom it was promulgated, and, coming from the same divine source: ‒ God, all religions exhibit similar fundamentals or first principles.
~Max Heindel

Religion is meant to teach us true spiritual human character. It is meant for self-transformation. It is meant to transform anxiety into peace, arrogance into humility, envy into compassion, to awaken the pure soul in man and his love for the Source, which is God.
~Radhanath Swami

For me, Islam is a moral reference point, a source of inspiration to work collectively with people, to love people and to help them, to concentrate on universal values of mercy, co-operation and tolerance.
~Wadah Khanfar

While no Muslim worthy of his name would lose his respect for God, the Prophet Muhammad, and other symbols of Islam, he might well refrain from using legal prosecution or violent reaction to those who do not show the same respect. My basis for this claim is nothing other than the holiest source of Islam, the Quran.
~Mustafa Akyol

The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.
~Noah Webster

The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.
~Reinhold Niebuhr

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To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.
~Adam Clarke

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We have seen that no religion stands on the basis of things known; none bounds its horizon within the field of human observation; and, therefore, as it can never present us with indisputable facts, so must it ever be at once a source of error and contention.
~Francis Wright

I do not concern myself much with reading long commentary volumes designed to enlarge at length upon that which is found in the scriptures. Rather, I prefer to dwell with the source, tasting of the unadulterated waters of the fountain of truth ‒ the word of God as he gave it and as it has been recorded in the books we accept as scripture.
~Gordon B Hinckley

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The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don’t understand it.
~George Santayana

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The theological virtue of hope is the patient and trustful willingness to live without closure, without resolution, and still be content and even happy because our Satisfaction is now at another level, and our Source is beyond ourselves.
~Richard Rohr

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God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.
~Dag Hammarskjold (missled out of the sky)

Man is important in one sense only. He was made in the image of God: That is his importance. He is not important for his body, ego, or personality. His constant affirmation of ego-consciousness is the source of all his problems.
~Paramahansa Yogananda

One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.
~Sam Harris

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All revolutions are spiritual at the source. All my activities have the sole purpose of achieving a union of hearts.
~Vinoba Bhave

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Prayer in the hour of need is a great boon. From simple trials to our Gethsemanes, prayer ‒ persistent prayer ‒ can put us in touch with God, our greatest source of comfort and counsel.
~Ezra Taft Benson

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.
~Lyndon B Johnson

Prayer is the beginning and the end, the source and the fruit, the core and the content, the basis and the goal of all peacemaking.
~Henri Nouwen

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I’m not into organized religion. I’m into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we’re all just part of nature.
~Neil Young

To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness.
~Timothy Radcliffe

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.
~Bill Gates

My faith isn’t very churchy, it’s a pretty personal, intimate thing and has been a huge source of strength in moments of life and death.
~Bear Grylls

I believe that God knows what each of us wants and needs. It’s not necessary for us to make it to church on Sunday to reach Him. You can find Him anyplace. And if that sounds heretical, my source is pretty good: Matthew, Five to Seven, The Sermon on the Mount.
~Frank Sinatra

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It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.
~Pearl S Buck

As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God.
~Swami Vivekananda

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The sun is the most parallel light source because it is so far away.
~Conrad Hall

The sun is a great source of blood-vitality, it streams strength into us.
~D H Lawrence

Sunlight fell upon the wall; the wall received a borrowed splendor. Why set your heart on a piece of earth, O simple one? Seek out the source which shines forever.
~Rumi

How strange it is, when life is bursting with light and strength, renewing itself every day in color and freshness, that we should sunder ourselves from these great sources of power. With all the treasures of earth at hand, we coop ourselves in narrow causeways where even a sudden knife-edge of bright sunlight is a matter of joyful surprise. Why do we grudge ourselves the embraces of “Our brother and good friend the Sun?”
~Christopher Morley

The sky is the source of light in nature ‒ and governs everything.
~John Constable

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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but Nature’s sources never fail.
~John Muir

It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.
~David Attenborough

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Brown is the color of hearth and home — of dried herbs and stone-ground bread and freshly baked cookies. It represents all of the nurturing, life-sustaining, down-to-earth qualities of terra firma, the very shade of earth itself. Just as in the sturdy oak, brown represents roots, a steady, stable source of security, comfort, and normalcy. It is the color of fertile soil and plowed earth, buckskin and rawhide, weathered redwood, bison and mustang, frontier land — rugged and outdoorsy. It is pine cone and bracken, chipmunk and acorn, beaver and doe. Brown is considered a classic shade of solid substance.
~Leatrice Eiseman

The security, stability, and firmness of the earth inspire those parts of my life that call for grounding. I give thanks to the earth for being the source of food, beauty, and my bones. I feel oneness with the rocks, the mountains, and Mother Earth…
~author unknown

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Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.
~Leonardo da Vinci

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If you take away the predators in the prairies and the national parks, you suddenly have an explosion of elk, and then you have a lack of the food source for the elk, so they strip all the ground bare and that takes away the cover, on and on and on and on. The whole food chain is disrupted.
~Peter Benchley

A plump, well-fed stream is as satisfying to behold as a well-fed animal or a thrifty tree. One source of charm in the English landscape is the full, placid stream the season through; no desiccated watercourses will you see there, nor any feeble, decrepit brooks, hardly able to get over the ground.
~John Burroughs

Nature is the fountain’s head, the source from whence all originality must spring.
~John Constable

I have not been on any river that has more of a distinctive personality than does the Missouri River. It’s a river that immediately presents to the traveler, ‘I am a grandfather spirit. I have a source; I have a life.’
~William Least Heat-Moon

The Ganga remains sacred from Gomukh, its source, to Ganga sagar, where it enters the ocean. It sanctifies the tributaries, which attain the very nature of Ganga. Similar is Sanskrit; sacred by itself, it sanctifies all that come into its contact.
~Sushma Swaraj

For me, our beaches have always been a source of personal inspiration.
~Tom Carper

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§ The Exercise

poesy on clouds

wonders that wander
such drama in clouds
never settled in their ways
chasing each other
not for enveloping
not a smothering
but a merging
coming together

volumes of grey
nothing black or white
room for everything
positives and negatives
with wet hot energies
conflict, source electric
sometimes a fighting
we call it a storm

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in today’s news

neigh-saying horse
studies, his field of course
presented reason in verse
wise and patient but terse
grounded proverbs for source
roused the mob but worse
protesting loudly ’til hoarse
in language vivid and coarse
used to force o’er crafted discourse
(cut to commercial: return to)
…reinforced

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either

stray dog asleep in the deep soft grass
to wake revived, hungry instincts alive
nose to ground, the hunt
the grind for scraps and rinds
or
still chest at rest
safe arrived at last
the death of a pet
undiscovered roadside

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Thank You note

Oil as source and resource
Brutal counterpunch to bland
Offbeat taste out of tune
Out of place
Pulls everything together
Alignment’s magic
Fills the space between
Completes the taste
Thank you Dr Olive Oyl
Your ardent student
@Olive U

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rhymes of a sort #25

flooded fields
too much rain
hopeless future
blame the reign
feckless rider
fault the reins

too hot the sun
stunted crops
believe in markets
watch them drop
endless misery
make it stop

toxic air
life with cars
lessons learned
got the scars
boundless mystery
source the stars

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plaza proposal

which came first
license or the certificate
disguised but decipherable
chicken or the egg answered
honored and filmed
no need knowing tho
which was which

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meditation #25

thin mountain air
toxic with beauty
inhaled
a source of sorts
from Duty to:
the privilege of life

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catechism

proven source of deep pleasure
life of challenge and leisure
denim ‘n sweats ‘n old cotton shirts
filtered, censored, narrowed apertures
memories bankable if edited and cropped

pain without measure
no love, nothing to treasure
to dream, cherish and wake for
sense that drifting, going unfocused
loss of chapters ‘twould better instruct us

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5s ‘n 7s

smarty-pants-phone dictator
photo ops staged and contrived
seduced public attention
reality disengaged
makes good for a pleasant life

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roll dice in love’s game again
start at go and try again
furnish with old furnitures
remembrances of the past
at source, livable or not

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singular resplendent birds
neither bevy or covey
strutting, step out together
group source never meant for soup
nice ‘n tasty nonetheless

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note under the door
cryptic message, source unknown
decipherable
chief compliance officer
please note, conditions remain

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source of joy somewhere
a radio’d someone
making mad music
fast loud make you dance
sit liquid in place

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what source sparks the kids
nuclear fusion the guess
family, that is

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sour milk of late life
curds for crop sourced afterlife
compost breeds again

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The Olio and Salmagundi of Quotes

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
~Soren Kierkegaard

Self-love is the source of all our other loves.
~Pierre Corneille

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The irrationality of disgust suggests it is unreliable as a source of moral insight. There may be good arguments against gay marriage, partial-birth abortions and human cloning, but the fact that some people find such acts to be disgusting should carry no weight.
~Paul Bloom

As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
~Victor Hugo

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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world’s richest source of rewarding challenges.
~Edsger Dijkstra

Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight.
~William Safire

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For each individual, sport is a possible source for inner improvement.
~Pierre de Coubertin

Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.
~Hugh Blair

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Black people comprehend the South. We understand its weight. It has rested on our backs… I knew that my heart would break if ever I put my foot down on that soil, moist, still, with old hurts. I had to face the fear/loathing at its source or it would consume me whole.
~Maya Angelou

We’ve simply been putting Band-Aids on the wounds of racism. We haven’t drilled down to the bone to get to its source.
~Daryl Davis

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One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.
~Thom Yorke

To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher.
~Arthur Holly Compton

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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win – essential to success.
~Napoleon Hill

Few men during their lifetime comes anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.
~Richard E Byrd

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The future continues to preoccupy me as a reliable source of hopes, fears and anxieties, but increasingly the present seems to have no outstanding qualities of its own, being merely a way-station through which events travel to the vast shadow lands of the past.
~Will Self

My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.
~Steve Jobs

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THIS EDITION: note

Quoted In The Grove:
As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.
~Seamus Heaney

Humans are imperfect. That’s one of the reasons that classical and jazz are in trouble. We’re on the quest for the perfect performance and every note has to be right. Man, every note is not right in life.
~Branford Marsalis

You must find the note, the correct key, for your story. If you find it, everything will work. If you do not, everything will stick out like elbows.
~Louis Malle

EndQuote:
Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate… but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.
~Franz Kafka

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Next Exercise Prompt: source

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I’ve met the Queen a couple of times, and she’s been delightful. In fact, I often find myself thinking: ‘What would the Queen do in this situation? Write a thank-you note? Yes, I’ll do that.’ She’s all about courtesy.
~Jools Holland

If you have someone in your life that you are grateful for ‒ someone to whom you want to write another heartfelt, slanted, misspelled thank you note ‒ do it. Tell them they made you feel loved and supported. That they made you feel like you belonged somewhere and that you were not a freak. Tell them all of that. Tell them today.
~Lisa Jakub

Side note, I was Prom Prince. My friend and I campaigned to be Prom King and Queen, and we got the rest of the non-popular people in the school to vote for us. We didn’t win, but we got Prince and Princess.
~Tom Lenk

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I got a note from the stage manager one night that someone wanted to meet me. And it was Steven Spielberg.
~Corey Reynolds

There was a note on my dressing room table that said, Call Neil Young.
~Carrie Snodgress

Alice Adams wrote a sweet note to me after my first novel came out when I was 26, and I was so blown away that I sent her a bunch of stamps by return mail. I have no idea what I was thinking. It was a star-struck impulse.
~Anne Lamott

When I turned 40, I invited Johnny Cash to my party, even though I knew there was gonna be 200 people roasting a pig and wild as can be. He didn’t come, but the next day, I got a bowl of chili he’d made and a note that said, ‘John, I’d love to come to your party, but that would mean I would have to leave my house.’
~John Prine

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I feel like a 1960s graduate student. I still work on note cards. I’ve never found a better system.
~Lawrence Wright

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
~Edgar Allan Poe

I admit that Post-it note sheets that adhere to virtually any surface are now my substitute of choice for retention.
~Candice Bergen

I keep a note pad because, sometimes, my thoughts get jammed up, and this is the only way that I can just, I can put brakes on it and brace myself, and just really, I feel like it’s better when I see it on paper.
~Moneybagg Yo

I’m always writing at night ‒ things I would change, things I would do differently. When I write a note, it sticks in my head differently.
~Don Mattingly

I make a note, set it aside, and hope it makes sense when the time comes to look at it again.
~Donald E Westlake

I don’t make notes for myself because I either lose them or they make no sense to me at all. I once found a piece of paper with the note: ‘everything.’ Apparently I made a note to myself not to forget everything!
~Aleksandar Hemon

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You see that my mind is not in great danger of rusting. The danger is that I may become a mere pedant. I feel a habit of quotation growing on me; but I resist that devil, for such it is, and it flees from me. It is all that I can do to keep Greek and Latin out of all my letters. Wise sayings of Euripides are even now at my fingers’ ends. If I did not maintain a constant struggle against this propensity, my correspondence would resemble the notes to the Pursuits of Literature.
~Thomas Babington Macaulay

It seems the more I play Jane Austen, the more poetic my writing becomes. The other day, I left a Post-it note for my husband that had the word ‘ergo’ on it. I gotta rein it in before I get all full out Madonnannoying.
~Donna Lynne Champlin

I like my stationery to be funnier, like, ‘Here’s my note, and it’s an elephant with a lady smoking a cigarette on top.’
~Kate Spade

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…a note, like a photo, can be a container for all kinds of things. It is the perfect social object. Stories, advice, jokes, diatribes, information, memories, facts, advertisements, love letters, grocery lists, and manifestoes can all be put into a note.
~Caterina Fake

Brain extenders are anything that get information out of our heads and into the physical world: calendars, key hooks by the front door, note pads, ‘to do’ lists.
~Daniel Levitin

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Posted From The Grove

I often note that my accent is a result of reading, writing, and speaking in three languages, something that immigrants across our nation understand. That isn’t something we are ashamed of; it is something that makes us proud Americans.
~Michelle Steel

Well, protest is central to the evolution of black American culture. It was protest that really finally won our freedom for us. Beyond that, it’s always interesting to note that it expanded the idea of democracy.
~Shelby Steele

Black Lives Matter is really an affirmation for our people. It’s a love note for our people, but it’s also a demand. We know that the system was not designed for justice for us.
~Opal Tometi

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
~Richard M Nixon

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After Bush was elected in 2004… and I was walking around in my befuzzed state of confusion and low-grade depression, I set out more or systematically to read writers who’d grappled with that fundamental question of what America is, why it is the way it is.
~Ben Fountain

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The 2008 Democratic presidential candidates would be wise to note that unwarranted negativism is dangerous and badly underestimates the strengths of the American people to adapt to and prosper with change.
~Bernard L Schwartz

But we should be mindful as we argue about our differences that so much more unites than divides us. We should also note that our differences, when compared with those in many, if not most, other countries, are smaller than we sometimes imagine them to be.
~John McCain

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Approval ratings matter for politicians, largely for good reason. A leader with plummeting approval ratings ought to take note of the needs and hopes of his people.
~Faith Salie

When people note that more and more voters are cutting their landline phones and that more and more people are refusing to pick up phone calls from numbers they don’t know, they are identifying problems that the polling industry has long struggled with and continue to try to adapt to.
~Kristen Soltis Anderson

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Many legal experts note that prosecutors regularly seek indictments of people or companies for destroying evidence or impeding investigations, even if they cannot prove other charges.
~Alex Berenson

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‘E pluribus unum‘ is perhaps the most obnoxious motto the Founders could have come up with, as far as liberals are concerned. They don’t mind the e pluribus part ‒ they love to note the things that divide and separate us. But they positively despise the unum part.
~Mike Gallagher

Whoever lives in Berlin note, and doesn’t die of Liberalism, will never die of vexation!
~ Ferdinand Lassalle

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One seldom expects the country’s president to adequately note the passing of a rocker, but Jimmy Carter’s assessment of Elvis Presley’s appeal ‒ ‘energy, rebelliousness and good humor’ ‒ is remarkably close to the mark.
~Molly Ivins

The great leaders are like the best conductors – they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.
~Blaine Lee

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Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.
~Albert Camus

I wish to note that intellectual property theft by a government represents the very essence of organized crime.
~Howard Berman

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It is interesting to note that the 200 richest people have more assets than the 2 billion poorest. (pre-1950)
~David Korten

(Editor’s Note: The following quote from Oxfam report (Jan, 2023)
— Richest 1% bag nearly twice as much wealth as the rest of the world put together over the past two years
— World’s billionaires have more wealth than 4.6 billion people)

My personal feeling, if I can interject a political note, is that I don’t think it is right that basic health care is a privilege. It shouldn’t be. It should be a right of all human beings. And certainly in the richest country in the world.
~Bryan Cranston

Third issue, and again I think it is important to note, anyone can make a mistake and any administration can make a mistake once in a while, but this is just a long train of abuses, an unbroken chain of following special interests rather than the health of the American people.
~Jay Inslee

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When I believe in something, I support it fully. On that note, I totally don’t support Velcro shoes.
~Ashley Rickards

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Many Russia experts note the deep and sad capacity of the Russian people for suffering.
~Roger Altman

Let us lose none of their humble words, let us note their slightest gestures, and tell me, tell me that we will think of them together, now and later, when we realise the misery of the times and the magnitude of their sacrifice.
~Georges Duhamel

Today, as we look back on the history of our nation and take note of how far we have come as a people, we are reminded that we owe a great debt to those who fought valiantly for the freedoms that we easily take for granted.
~Sam Brownback

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It is curious to note how fragile the memory is, even for the important times in one’s life. This is, moreover, what explains the fortunate fantasy of history.
~Marcel Duchamp

A certain kind of person in America loves to note that they’re currently soldiering through the latest Pulitzer winner for history, in particular. It connotes a certain gravitas, a connectedness to the literary and intellectual scene that most upwardly mobile professionals in America still desire.
~Michelle Dean

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I think it’s important to note that after the airstrikes began in Iraq and Syria, ISIS began a very aggressive social media campaign calling for these types of attacks, these lone wolf attacks.
~Michael McCaul

But here too it should be noted that the President’s approach was to first ask the repressive and brutal Taliban to surrender Osama bin Laden to us, and only after that government refused to do that did we invade.
~Barney Frank

To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent, and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?
~Albert Camus

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I’ve found that in places where women have not really been afforded full rights yet ‒ for instance, in the Middle East ‒ even very conservative politicians in the region will say, ‘You know, my daughter would really like to meet you,’ or, ‘Would you send a note to my granddaughter?’
~Condoleezza Rice

Muslim girls, we love fashion! Whether we wear the hijab or not ‒ it’s our choice ‒ and it’s time the industry took note. Finally, fashion stores are open to that idea.
~Yuna

I think as the world changes, we have to keep up. We have to note what is happening, and I think writing has always had a powerful corrective influence and possibility. We have to write about what’s good, and we also have to write about parts of our culture that are not good, that are not working out. I think it takes a new eye.
~Lee Smith

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Note the three most important Cabinet positions. Rice said that it was better to find the weapons of mass destruction than to see a mushroom cloud.
~Andrew Greeley

We periodically note that there are no silver bullets, there are no magic formulas, there’s no single action or component of the overall… comprehensive civil-military approach.
~David Petraeus

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The year 2016 was a year of revolutionary event, a year of great change, worthy of note in the history of our Party and country.
~Kim Jong-un

Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That’s the truth. And on that note, I’ll say goodnight. God love you.
~Bobby Darin

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~Merlen Meyer: DIPTYQUE – Do Son (4:42) provides the images and music you connect into story

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~WOW Tech: People Who Are At Another Level (15:40) call them notable, prepare to Pause and Rewind 10

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~Caroline Bologna: Funny Tweets For Grammar Nerds …and why not?

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~Vincent Urban: In Russia (6:37) Forget the politicians; real people live in real beauty here (reprised)

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There are three things that can be organized: time, space, and work. Note that, despite what many believe, you cannot organize people ‒ you can only organize the work that people do.
~Michael Gerber

One of the most important tasks as a leader in a startup is to pick the right metric to track. This is often referred to as the ‘compass metric’ because it will be your compass for growth. It’s important to note that ‘compass metrics’ will likely change over the lifetime of a business.
~Tobias Lutke

As a small business or startup, one of the factors you should always consider when looking at a potential partnership is the incremental potential reach. Note that wider reach doesn’t always mean a better partnership opportunity. Instead of sheer scale, take a look at which communities your potential partner can open up for you.
~Leah Busque

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When I wanted the CEO of Starbucks to keep me in mind for their board, I sent him a note rather than calling. I call it dripping: You don’t want to be like a faucet full-on; you want to drip just enough that they don’t forget about you.
~Mellody Hobson

Don’t add people to your subscriber list just because they once wrote you a note. Or once answered a note you wrote to them. Don’t put your address book into your newsletter database. Let your readers sign up.
~M J Rose

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Buyers of powerful cars place a high premium on the exhaust note, and manufacturers spend a lot of money getting it right. At the same time, high-end cars are expected to filter out the sounds of the mundane world.
~Serge Schmemann

I started on a very high note and I was always able to choose. I want to be able to do that until my last breath. And to do that, you have to have money.
~Claire Bloom

It is also interesting to note that the original supermodels are now making a comeback after being dismissed in the Nineties as being ‘greedy’ by a gaggle of male designers who lived like Sun Kings.
~Julie Burchill

I noted that people are happy here in India. When I went back home, people had everything in the materialistic sense and were surrounded with abundance, but they were not happy.
~Goldie Hawn

A note of caution: We can never achieve goals that envy sets for us. Looking at your friends and wishing you had what they had is a waste of precious energy. Because we are all unique, what makes another happy may do the opposite for you. That’s why advice is nice but often disappointing when heeded.
~Marcus Buckingham

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When I have interns, I always say, ‘Handwritten thank-you notes can make a difference.’ People remember that ‒ not an e-mail, a handwritten note in an envelope.
~Andre Leon Talley

I remember ordering records out of the Dischord catalog in the ’80s, and there would be a handwritten note.
~Beto O’Rourke

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The government, in my judgment, cannot create money; the government can give its note, like an individual, and the prospect of its being paid determines its value.
~Robert Green Ingersoll

A U.S. dollar is an IOU from the Federal Reserve Bank. It’s a promissory note that doesn’t actually promise anything. It’s not backed by gold or silver.
~P J O’Rourke

Money is more than a massively consensual IOU note. It is a piece of infrastructure and is as artificial as Interstate 5, NutraSweet or season three of ‘Mad Men.’
~Douglas Coupland

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As artists, we are blessed to be able to make money but, on the same note, are held accountable for our federal tax obligations just like everyone else.
~Rick Ross

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Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.
~Doug Coupland

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A number of bloggers in economics and the financial sector have risen to prominence through the sheer strength of their work. Note it was not their family connections nor ties to Ivy League schools or elite banks, but rather the strength of their research, analysis and writing.
~Barry Ritholtz

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In the beginning I just wanted to survive. For the first three years, we made zero revenue. I remember many times when I was trying to pay up, the restaurant owner would say, ‘Your bill was paid.’ And there would be a note saying, ‘Mr. Ma, I’m your customer on the Alibaba platform. I made a lot of money, and I know you don’t, so I paid the bill.’
~Jack Ma

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Unless someone wants to look funny, I’ll not recommend anyone to copy my bowling action. But on a serious note, with the confidence that I have got from the amount of runs I have been scoring, when I’m thrown the ball to bowl, I am pretty sure of what I have to do. I may not be the most attractive to watch while bowling, but I can be effective.
~Virat Kohli

Even if I would have left on a good note, there is still going to be people who don’t like you, who don’t like what you stand for. I can’t worry about that.
~Antonio Davis (NBA)

I wanted to be positive. I have good sportsmanship. You leave everything on a good note, you just smile and shake hands.
~Vernon Davis

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I know that all good things must come to an end and I’ve had an incredible ride. I just want to end it on the right note.
~Alonzo Mourning

On a personal note, I think it won’t be until after I’ve retired that I’m fully aware of what I’ve done or what I’ve gone on to achieve in my career.
~Lionel Messi

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I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. A forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note, torn in two and burned up, so that it never can be shown against the man.
~Henry Ward Beecher

Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note.
~Hank Stram

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it… Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.
~Marcus Aurelius

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§ VIDEO:
After ‘Arrested Development,’ I didn’t know for sure if I wanted to be an actor. I was hitting this wall, where I was the ‘ethnic best friend’ or the ‘sassy teenager.’ It felt like the same note, and I didn’t feel like I was growing.
~Alia Shawkat

The work evolves when you get another part, and then you’re getting called on to solve difficult characters, to inject a note of humanity into them. It’s more interesting for me to do that than to stand around and be sunny.
~Hope Davis

I don’t like to play characters that are one note, and just the attractive girl in the film.
~Elisha Cuthbert

Every actor wants to have a character that changes, that has some kind of movement, that gets from point A to point B, that doesn’t just supply one note.
~Jeffrey Jones

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I only have one note, let’s be honest. But I’ll play a different version of that one note.
~David Spade

People say I’m a one-note actor, but the way I figure it, those other guys are just looking for that one right note.
~Joel McCrea

No matter what you do, your person comes through. You can’t completely change yourself on the screen. I had in mind someone colder and more in control, but I couldn’t do it. This human note just crept in and maybe it’s better.
~Leslie Caron

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I love auditioning. Since ‘The Notebook’ and ‘Wedding Crashers,’ I don’t have to audition anymore, and I miss it. You get to show your interpretation of the character. I get nervous when I don’t audition. What if they hate what I want to do?
~Rachel McAdams

Put a Post-It note on your mirror that says: ‘Someone has to succeed. There’s no reason why it shouldn’t be me.’ Repeat before every audition.
~Janet McTeer

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How do I let the director know how obsessed I am and willing to do anything for the movie? Like, I wanted to write this one director a letter, so I wrote him a handwritten note. But then I was like, ‘How many people are writing this guy handwritten letters? Is it going to seem cheesy? What do I do?’
~Jennifer Lawrence

It’s a good note for any young hopeful in this business to take: study up and make sure you are informed at all times because knowing how to anticipate someone’s subtle nuances in a performance will only elevate your own art!
~Tisha Campbell-Martin

You try to work with the director and your fellow actors to get somewhere, but other people are the judge of whether you hit that note right.
~Ciaran Hinds

The only thing I did at RKO of any note was lose my Texas accent.
~Dorothy Malone

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Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
~Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Woody is so musical in his filmmaking. I’ve never worked with anyone I’ve trusted so completely. He won’t let you hit a false note.
~Dianne Wiest

If you ask any person on this crew what they think of Hugh Jackman they’ll admit they’ve never seen anything like it. I’ll give him an emotional note and he’ll hit it every time.
~Darren Aronofsky

When I’m hard at work, when I’m deep in it, there is no other feeling. For me, my work is at all times building a nation out of thin air. It is manning the troops. It is painting a canvas. It is hitting every high note. It is running a marathon. It is being Beyonce. And it is all of those things at the same time.
~Shonda Rhimes

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When we run out of them upstairs, I’ve been known to appropriate some from our greenroom, pocketing a few with one hand as I smile and greet our guests with the other. One time, Dave Zinczenko of ‘Eat this, Not That!’ fame, busted me in the act. The cookies apparently fall in the ‘not that’ category. I made a note of it.
~Lester Holt

Please note when you watch a play, you can’t pause it and go to the loo or shout into the kitchen for a tea. Learned that the hard way.
~Aisling Bea

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Savvy observers occasionally note television’s resemblance to the weather: Everybody loves to complain about it, but nobody can do anything to fix it.
~Michael Medved

The bane of every TV writer’s existence is the likability note.
~Marti Noxon

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~Omeleto: Silly Human (12:49) ominous, chilling

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~Omeleto: Slave to the Page (16:34) too little/too much, and the spark of a story

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~Omeleto: Lady Bently’s End (6:11) delicious on wry

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What is dreaming, and what happens, and are there any real benefits to dreaming? Well, to take a step back, I think it’s important to note that dreaming essentially is a time when we all become flagrantly psychotic.
~Matthew Walker

There were no vampires of note in Western literature until about the 18th century. But they tell us where we park our anxieties, whether its over-powerful women, death or damnation. We make our own monsters.
~Deborah Harkness

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I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
~Virginia Woolf

With every milestone that I’ve come across, there’s always been a little note at the bottom that’s said, ‘Don’t worry, there’s another milestone coming up.’
~Jack Garratt

I didn’t want Sadness to be just one note.
~Phyllis Smith

Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
~Gore Vidal

One does not contemplate it like a picture. The idea of contemplation disappears completely. Simply take note that it’s a bottle rack, or that it’s a bottle rack that has changed its destination.
~Marcel Duchamp

I feel like a lot of us have a story to tell, it’s just that we don’t get the platform or the access or the opportunity. I don’t know how the goddesses and gods and the stars aligned. I got the opportunity, and I do have to note that a Hispanic woman gave me that opportunity.
~Tanya Saracho

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I don’t like to watch a movie where it’s just kind of like all one note, dee-dee-dee-dee. I want spikes of adrenaline and highs and lows and exciting tension release.
~Catherine Hardwicke

We’re used to a story in modern terms as an information delivery device. Certainly on television and even with the studio films, there’s really only one note that you get, and that’s clarity. And people will sacrifice everything for clarity. They’ll sacrifice the joke. They’ll sacrifice the moment, or the romance.
~Noah Hawley

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I know electric knives are excellent for carving turkeys that have had their bones removed and been forced into a mold to shape them. Please note that those turkeys are called hams.
~John Hodgman

Note, that yeast of good Beer, is better then that of Ale.
~Kenelm Digby

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‘Man v. Food‘ was the biggest career-defining opportunity. I went from anonymity to someone of note with access to amazing eateries.
~Adam Richman

I had a lot of fun creating some restaurants with a casual note to it, such as DBGB, for example, where it was about bangers and beers, being a very casual brasserie with very affordable food but very interesting homemade program.
~Daniel Boulud

We use many expressions of fennel: blended with potato, it’s an earthy, rich puree; the raw fronds add a fresh, green note; and the braised version gives it a luscious, home-cooked feel, something people can connect to ‒ you need that in any dish.
~Daniel Humm

Note to self: never eat garlic before a fashion show because everyone greets you with a kiss on both cheeks.
~Stacey Solomon

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The retirement timing is always a tricky thing for a dancer. I think it’s different for everyone. How you say goodbye to the thing you have really focused on that much is a tough one. I’ve always intended to leave in good shape, to exit on a high note.
~Damian Woetzel

I just thought my 50th year in the BBC is 2018, and it has to end sometime, and I thought that would be a good note to go out.
~John Motson

I couldn’t have left my career as an actor on a better note than to have done a cameo in the Lost In Space movie. Doing this part is the highlight of my career. What a way to leave the profession!
~Mark Goddard

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You’ve got to be able to finish out the season on a strong note.
~Paul Pierce (NBA)

I just want to go out on a high note, go out on top, and lead my team.
~Eric Weddle (NFL)

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It is to be noted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.
~Richard Steele

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Let us note that art ‒ even on an abstract level ‒ has never been confined to ‘idea‘; art has always been the ‘realized‘ expression of equilibrium.
~Piet Mondrian

If you are an artist, you may live with Lincoln. You sit with him, your coat is spread to keep the snow from the grave of Ann Rutledge; you will walk with Washington through the snow and suffer with him as you note the bloodstained footsteps at Valley Forge.
~Gutzon Borglum

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§ MUSIC:

I left an office at the top of the Pan Am Building, a nine-room apartment, and a farm in Vermont because I was aching inside. It took an analyst to tell me I could write a note of permission to become a musician and sign it.
~Michael Masser (songwriter)

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I think when I was pretty young I got really into the tone of my instrument and I remember just playing one note for an hour to just kind of feel the resonance of the violin.
~Andrew Bird

I know a girl who cries when she practices violin because each note sounds so pure it just cuts into her, and then the melody comes pouring out her eyes. Now, to me, everything else just sounds like a lie.
~Conor Oberst

That’s the power of music, a key sequence or a chord sequence or even a note can do something to you physically that’s uncontrollable.
~Edith Bowman

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If I can play one note and make you cry, then that’s better than those fancy dancers playing twenty notes.
~Robbie Robertson

It’s impossible to play a run with as much feeling as a single note. I’ve never been so much into runs as making single notes cry.
~Robin Trower

That’s the thing about the blues: It’s one thing to hit a note on a guitar. To make it matter is something else altogether.
~Joe Bonamassa

It can even be a single note which defines the entire song.
~Leon Redbone

You can use existing music in a film, but creating a soundtrack is very different. One note can be enough.
~Ryuichi Sakamoto

The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way… All you have to do is play one note. But it needs to be the right note.
~Herbie Hancock

I’d love to knock an audience cold with one note, but what do you do for the rest of the evening?
~Eric Clapton

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You can use existing music in a film, but creating a soundtrack is very different. One note can be enough.
~Ryuichi Sakamoto

I don’t like to waste notes, not even one. I like to put the right note in the right place, and my influences have always been those kinds of players.
~Johnny Marr

Some people write a thank you note for a gift, and it’s three pages long, and some people write a thank you note, and it’s five sentences ‒ that’s me. I like to pare away words because I don’t want to waste anyone’s time.
~Bill Callahan

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I played trumpet in the school bands. I learned things I liked to play on my trumpet, but I didn’t learn why this note goes with this note and why it produces that sound. Or how to create tension in the composition.
~Flea

I hate the natural sound of the trumpet, but I think I’m naturally set up to be a trumpet player. I know that sounds weird. But pretty much anytime I play a note, I’m uncomfortable in a general sense.
~Christian Scott

What I was interested in was conveying an emotional message, which means using everything you’ve got inside you sometimes to barely make a note, or if you have to strain to sing, you sing.
~Nina Simone

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When I was in high school, there were these British blues-rock-type bands with really good guitar players that would jam on one song for half an hour. And as much as I was amazed by some of those guitar players, seeing them prompted me to make a note that that’s not something I could do.
~David Byrne

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No bird has ever uttered note
That was not in some first bird’s throat;
Since Eden’s freshness and man’s fall
No rose has been original.
~Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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There isn’t one album that says ‘Hall & Oates.’ It’s always ‘Daryl Hall and John Oates.’ From the very beginning. People never note that. The idea of ‘Hall & Oates,’ this two-headed monster, this thing, is not anything we’ve ever wanted or liked.
~John Oates

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Holding a note is a very difficult thing ‒ you have to use your whole body to achieve a perfect pitch.
~Daphne Guinness

I have a huge rib cage, which is why I can hold a note out until I’m blue in the face… because I have such a big lung capacity.
~Jessica Simpson

I can’t hold a note. I tried a singing lesson, but my vocal coach kept giving me the stink eye.
~Lyriq Bent

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I did once shatter a chandelier. I was singing with my college choir in Wales. I was the soloist and I hit the high note and there was this massive bang and all this glass came down from the ceiling. I’d like that to be my party trick if I can perfect it.
~Katherine Jenkins

The high note is not the only thing.
~Placido Domingo

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I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn’t play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world’s best listener.
~Carla Bley

I would get records by Earl Scruggs… I would tune my banjo down and I’d pick out the songs note by note. Learned how to play that way. I persevered. There was a book written by Pete Seeger, who showed you some basic strumming and some basic picking… And I kind of worked out my own style of playing.
~Steve Martin

I taught myself to play the guitar by listening to Paul Simon records, working it out note by note. He is an incredibly intelligent musician.
~Douglas Adams

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I was just obsessed with soul singers who had these big powerful voices. I used to listen to Aretha, Whitney, Mariah and try and imitate them, note for note and riff for riff.
~Jess Glynne

For the most part, I’ve been influenced by black singers and singers I couldn’t sound like. Whenever I tried to do a dark note or a bent note, I would just sound like Hootie And The Blowfish.
~Justin Vernon

I can’t sing, like, I can’t saaang. I’m no Luther! That to me is singing. Being able to hit a note doesn’t mean you can sing.
~Michael Ealy

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Sweep picking is when the right hand sweeps down and up the strings in succession. But when you do sweep picking, one note rings into the next, and it sounds almost like you’re playing a chord, and that’s exactly what you don’t want.
~Yngwie Malmsteen

To play sweep arpeggios correctly, you have to mute each note with the left hand immediately after picking it.
~John Petrucci

Eric Clapton’s scales ‒ when he comes off a high note and it’s time for a refrain or a little bit of a rest, he peals off scales going downwards that are so good it’s unbelievable.
~Chris Rea

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I ended my journey with ‘Balika’… on a good note, but I’ve been hearing that I threw tantrums on the set and had an attitude problem.
~Pratyusha Banerjee

If I would go up on a high note, Eddie would want a low one. That’s how petty the situation had become.
~Sammy Hagar

Phish has run its course and that we should end it now while it’s still on a high note.
~Trey Anastasio

The Eagles ended on a rather abrupt note, although in retrospect I realize now that it had been ending for quite some time.
~Don Henley

The interesting thing is that New Order finished on an okay note. It was only after we split that things got worse.
~Peter Hook

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Well, if you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night!
~Count Basie

Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.
~Ornette Coleman

I always look for the weirdest note to land on. I felt that that was the least I could do for the great musical traditions which I’ve spawned.
~Walter Becker

There’s got to be a backbone, there’s got to be a skeleton to the whole way I perform, but you never want to hit the same note twice during a performance, I think. I think it’s always got to be fresh so it doesn’t bore me, and I always want to go out on edge.
~Casey Abrams

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I love singing, but I feel very naked and very vulnerable when I’m singing sometimes. With acting, I always think that it doesn’t matter what you are as long as you’re truthful in that moment. But with singing, you always have to hit the note. It’s not like you can just go, ‘Oh, it doesn’t really matter what note you sing!’
~Jake Epstein

Once you start playing a piece, there is a connection between every note. You cannot say, ‘I will not concentrate on this note.’ You cannot ignore things the way you do in the rest of your life…
Every note is a lifetime for itself.
~Daniel Barenboim (pianist)

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Music can change everything for you if it’s honest and strikes a note inside.
~Maddie Marlow

In order to get a note out, I have to dig deep, and I mean that on an emotional level. To physically sing, I have to get somewhere deep before I can do it.
~Ray LaMontagne

I play with feeling so I need to hear what is coming out of the amplifier to inspire me; I don’t just play mechanically. I need to hear what I am doing in order to create the next note. If I don’t hear it then I can’t feed myself.
~Michael Schenker

Great musicians, you don’t just hear them, you feel them.
~Zakk Wylde

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To the audience, it’s like I’m changing the subject every five seconds, but to me, my show’s almost like a 90-minute song that I know exactly. I wrote every note, and I know exactly where everything is.
~Steven Wright (comedian)

I never look at a note. I just roam the stage. The people do not want to leave.
~Jayne Meadows

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I know every note in every song, the whole history of it, even parts that were there and are gone.
~Enya

Every single note on this album is there for a reason.
~Vanessa Carlton

I want to be part of every note, every single moment going on in the studio. I want nothing forgotten; I want nothing missed.
~Max Martin

Throughout my career, if I have done anything, I have paid attention to every note and every word I sing ‒ if I respect the song. If I cannot project this to a listener, I fail.
~Frank Sinatra

Own every note I sing and sell it. Make a connection to the audience. That’s what it comes down to, you know?
~Will Champlin

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I have never experienced anything like walking out onto the stage of an oversold venue and, before the first note is struck, realizing that there is not going to be enough oxygen for all of us.
~Henry Rollins

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~dino4ever: Dean Martin & Caterina Valente • One Note Samba (3:18) mellow Martin mischief in service to music

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~Toby Kieth: Big Blue Note (3:21) blue skies to blue note to just blue

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~JalapoaoMaji: Five For Fighting • Note To The Unknown Soldier (3:26) some did, in fact, give up their one life for US

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~marallmusic: all-star cast • A Song Is Born (6:26) before all that jazz

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~Neil Young: This Note’s For You (4:20) odd visual inserts

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~Dierks Bentley: High Note (5:36) if they drop the big one, here’s the plan

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~Randy Houser: Note To Self (3:15) big lessons learned the hard way

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~Mr Bungee: Donna Murphy • Hit Me With A Hot Note (3:18) inhabited with a storyline

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~Todd Kessler: One More Note (3:13) gentling thru days as a path in life

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~Lamego Alvelos: Roger Waters • Brain Damage/Eclipse (6:03) just because

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As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note.
~Georges Bizet

Did I become a theater person right then, sitting in the Imperial Theater, waiting for the high piccolo note at the start of ‘Pippin‘? Maybe.
~Jean Hanff Korelitz

I’m looking for an intensity of focus. It’s a bit like tuning a guitar string. You tighten and tighten, and nothing really changes until you hit that tension, and suddenly it’s there: you’ve got a note.
~Lenny Abrahamson

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I can’t read a note. I have lots of discipline, but I can’t sit still at any instrument.
~Suzanne Farrell (ballerina)

My course is about really working on a sheet of music. You work out the chords, which note complements the other, and how they will make the feeling of tension, the feeling of resolution. It’s all about harmonization. That’s more of the theory of notation and everything rather than practical. I don’t play any instrument.
~Catriona Gray

I didn’t understand key signatures or anything, you know. I’d say silly things at the top of a trumpet part like, ‘Note, when you play B naturals, make the B naturals a half step lower because they sound funny if they’re B naturals.’ And some guy said: ‘Idiot, just put a flat on the third line and it’s a key signature, you know?’
~Quincy Jones

In Braille you write your flat sign first and then your note.
~George Shearing

For me, the only thing that makes one scale different from another is not the starting note; it’s the separation of the intervals.
~Allan Holdsworth

As a melody instrument player, it’s all about getting from one note to the next, and those intervals and how you navigate your way through these vertical structures of chords. You realize that everything’s moving forward, and it’s all linear.
~David Sanborn

We’ve always connected musically in Fleetwood Mac because we’re the only people who play more than one note. I’m not the best pianist, but I know how to interlace around what Lindsey’s playing.
~Christine McVie

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I think John Williams, him and his team, have been incredible orchestrators. By that, I mean how he chooses which instrument plays which note.
~David Newman

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The number of strokes to the inch controls the pitch of the note: the more, the higher the pitch; the fewer, the lower the pitch, the size of the stroke controls the loudness… the tone quality is the most difficult element to control, it is made by the shape of the strokes.
~Norman McLaren (theremin)

All modern MIDI synthesizers are capable of polyphony, which means they can play more than one note at a time and more than one instrument at a time.
~Charles Petzold

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I come from the home-grown punk ethic, where it doesn’t matter if you can’t play a note, it’s how you communicate.
~Siobhan Fahey

If there was a wrong note, it didn’t matter as long as it was rocking.
~Malcolm Young

People love the electric rake. You just hit it or whatever you want to do. You can’t play ‘Swanee River’ on it. You have to just make terrible noise. Occasionally, it will make a sound like a note.
~Eugene Chadbourne

No disrespect to people that don’t use music theory or don’t know it. It does help to be able to figure out what key a song is in, even though with your scales you can figure it out so you can set your Auto-Tune right. So many songs with Auto-Tune are off or have the wrong note playing on the 808. And they pass it off as being hood.
~Mike Dean

I’m tired of people disturbing the peace, getting on the radio and sounding a hot mess. If I can tell what the note really is, why let them go to the note they think it is?
~Betty Wright

Listen to the great guitarists of the Fifties. They didn’t do that nasty sort of industrial distortion. They played musical compositions as solos ‒ Scotty Moore, Cliff Gallup, Django Reinhardt. There wasn’t a bad note in any of those solos. I listened to that and stayed with those rules.
~Jeff Beck

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I remember listening to Miles Davis in the car with my dad. I had just done my Grade 5 piano exam, and I was quite cocky. I said, ‘It sounds like he’s played the wrong note there.’ I remember the look of horror on my dad’s face, and thinking, ‘Wow, I have to figure out why that is not acceptable.’
~Laura Mvula

Conceptually, I am open to mistakes ‒ errors, actually. I do play lots of wrong notes while I am making some music, and a mistake or a wrong note is like a gift for me: ‘Oh, wow, an unknown sound or an unknown harmony. I didn’t know about this.’
~Ryuichi Sakamoto

When I tried to play something and screwed up, I’d hear some other note that would come into play. Then I started trying different things to find the beauty in it.
~Dimebag Darrell

There is no such thing as a wrong note.
~Art Tatum

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We’ve spoken to a lot of friends who are stars who could be great, and they say to us, ‘Look, if you were doing a movie musical, and we could pre-record and lip-synch, sure. But live? So if we hit a bad note it’s there for posterity? We’re not going to go out there without a safety net.’ People are scared to death of that.
~Craig Zadan

If you don’t take no chances, then you’re not a performer. Performers always take chances. You go see a singer, they’ll hit the high note. They’ll hit that note, they’re not afraid, they’re gonna exaggerate the fact and make me enjoy it, make me say, ‘Wow, I wish I could do that!’
~Evander Holyfield

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You have to contort your body in a certain way to hit a low note. When you’re on film, you can’t. So you do, in a sense, get to hide behind your voice, which is nice.
~Will Friedle

You can alter movie singing so much because you go into the recording studio and, just technology for recording has gotten so good, you can hold out a note and they can combine a note from take 2 and a note from take 8.
~Anne Hathaway

That’s what happens nowadays with people working on computers. They can so easily fix things with their mouse and take out all the, ‘Oh, somebody coughed in the background; we need to take that out’ ‒ or somebody hit a bad note. Those are all the best moments.
~Jack White

They look for the top note to end every song. They don’t know what they are singing about. There is no style.
~Frankie Avalon

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Singing harmony is not the same as singing a part in a choral group, where you know you’re going to have to hit this note and then that note. There are nuances that change every day. Maybe today you have a slight cold or voice fatigue, or you’ve done something and there’s a slight difference in your breathing.
~Phil Everly

With the a cappella groups, every voice is like one string on a guitar, one note on the piano, or one cymbal, and you don’t have the luxury of falling back on anything.
~Ben Folds

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If you put your hand on the piano, you play a note. It’s in tune. But if you put it on the violin, maybe it is, maybe it isn’t. You have to figure it out.
~Itzhak Perlman

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Harmonics are vibrations a fraction of the length of the vibrating string, which add higher-pitched and more complex content to the notes. With a dull instrument, the harmonics die out, but with a sustaining instrument, the harmonics continue to sound along with the fundamental note.
~Steve Albini

I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano.
~Leo Kottke

A guitar is so tactile, and when you’re playing bends ‒ and bending notes is a big part of my style ‒ there are so many notes within the note you’re bending from and the note you’re bending up to.
~Joe Bonamassa

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To me it’s no accident that all the symphony orchestras around the world tune up to the note A. And A is 440 cycles, except in Germany where it’s 444. But the universe is 450 cycles. So what I’m trying to say is, I think it’s God’s voice, melody especially. Counterpoint, retrograde inversion, harmony… that’s the science and the craft.
~Quincy Jones

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The sensitive ear of the musician detects a certain musical note in every city which is different from that of another city. He hears in each little brook a new melody, and to him the sound of wind in the treetops of different forests give a varying sound.
~Max Heindel

I like music where it can be taken in at many levels, as far as the emotions behind it. Somebody like Miles Davis ‒ there’s such a wide range of feelings within even one note. Those kinds of things really resonate for me.
~Ron Mael

Fats [Domino] ‒ very funny man, but every note that he played was like a pearl.
~Cecil Taylor

When I was young, I had an ‘aha’ moment in church. There was a thing called testimony service, and somebody would sing a song, and everyone else would join in, finding a note where they fit. During one of those, a light went on in my head. In that moment, I heard everything ‒ Parliament, the Staple Singers, Curtis Mayfield, Prince ‒ in there.
~D’Angelo

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There is a world of difference between a Mahler eighth note and a normal eighth note.
~Gustav Mahler

We are each but a quarter note in a grand symphony.
~Guy Laliberte

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I never was a liner note junkie. I didn’t know who produced records or there was such a thing as a straight songwriter. I always assumed that everybody that was singing a song wrote it or made it up.
~Chris Stapleton

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There is no formula to it. Writing every song is a little journey. The first note has to lift you.
~Enya

You have to really have the will to hang onto the first note as it is being played, and then really stay with it and take the flight, as it were, you know, for the duration of the piece.
~Daniel Barenboim

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I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can’t write a note.
~Alan Dean Foster

I can play just about any keyboard but I can’t read or write a note.
~John Carpenter

I don’t know one note from another.
~Hank Williams

I can read a chord chart, but I couldn’t read a note chart.
~Glen Campbell

I can’t read a note of music. I just do it all from ear.
~Jane Horrocks

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I think that anybody can go home, put the record on, and listen to it note for note, but there’s very little entertainment value in that, I believe. When you give people something visually entertaining to watch along with presenting the music, I feel it makes it a lot more interesting.
~Jay DeMarcus

I don’t think I could ever be in a band if we just had to go out there and play the record note for note. I’d give up. I’d become a banker.
~Peter Frampton

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Risk is at the heart of jazz. Every note we play is a risk.
~Steve Lacy

I still go out, but not a lot. If I go to see music, it’s usually to the Blue Note, jazz clubs, things like that. When I travel, I find out where the jazz clubs are.
~Jonathan Demme

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The blues. It runs through all American music. Somebody bending the note. The other is the two-beat groove. It’s in New Orleans music, it’s in jazz, it’s in country music, it’s in gospel.
~Wynton Marsalis

That’s why I loved Dinah Washington. She sung jazz, but they called her the Queen of the Blues. She had the control and sophistication of jazz in her note selection and how to attack a song or certain lines, but then attacked it with a painful force of blues behind it. That’s why I admired her so much, because of that versatility.
~Andra Day

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Find one note on the instrument that pleases you, and then find another note that also pleases you.
~Cecil Taylor

It’s not about retro or modern, it’s about this note or that note, which sounds better?
~Dan Hicks

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The bass should be the note of the bass drum, and then you’ve got the engine of the band that everything else builds on. Everything else, the guitar, the keyboards, is a colour.
~Suzi Quatro

Last tour my bass rig was breaking down every other night. That was a pain. We would get on stage and Trey would count off the song, and I’d play the first note and nothing would be there. Those guys would just roll their eyes.
~Mike Gordon

If I had a pull on ‘One of These Nights,’ on the first high note on ‘One of These Nights,’ that was just a tiny hair flat or something, I could just feel Henley’s eyes scouring into the back of my head. No mistakes were allowed, and it really kept the quality at a high level.
~Don Felder

When I produce a record, I roll up my sleeves; I’m not one of those passive guys. I really get in there and make sure every note is measured. I tell the bass player, ‘You have to play it like this,’ or I tell the drummer, ‘It’s got to be like this.’
~David Foster

I can’t leave the studio until everything is as it should be. And I can’t put a record out unless I am completely happy with it. I never want to be at a signing and hear my album playing and think, ‘Oh no, I could have done that top note better.’
~Katherine Jenkins

If I get a note on my script or my films, what I say to a studio executive is that, ‘You know, this is the film of my legacy, and I never want to be sitting in a theater looking up on the screen and seeing something that I don’t believe in.’ I will never do that.
~Gina Prince-Bythewood

There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.
~Bliss Carman

NBC has not once given me a music note. I get the freedom to do what I want, and that’s kind of amazing.
~Brian Reitzell

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The records I make, I’m there from the writing of the first note through the click tracks to the miking of the drums to the editing of everything to the production to the vocals to the artwork.
~Devin Townsend

I’d much rather be worrying about playing that note in tune, and picking out the best way to arrange the song, rather than thinking about pricing for the download. It’s not art.
~Trent Reznor

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I tell students, ‘If you are learning from YouTube I almost don’t want to teach you because what you learn from YouTube it takes 10 times as long to unlearn.’ They do an approximation of the centre of the note, an approximation of the interpretation, a cloned version.
~Kiri Te Kanawa

There are many types of silence. There is a silence before the note, there is a silence at the end and there is a silence in the middle.
~Daniel Barenboim

The only thing that interests me in music is to be able to reach into the, let’s call it, ‘collective unconscious’ of what is noblest in the human spirit, the way you find in the music of Mozart and Beethoven and Verdi that wonderful quality that not a note can be changed.
~Gian Carlo Menotti

Music is a prerogative of those who are willing to spend time to study it, understand and love it, well aware of the fact that one life is not enough to improve just one single note of what has already been written and performed.
~Andrea Bocelli

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I always like to talk about how important space is. Art is in the spaces. Anybody can sing a note; it takes an artist to sing the spaces. Anybody can paint a brushstroke; it takes an artist to know when not to put the brushstroke.
~Brian Stokes Mitchell

Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.
~Frederic Chopin

Its all about finding the right note at the right place and knowing when to leave well enough alone. And that’s a lifelong quest.
~David Sanborn

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The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another… and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.
~Leonard Bernstein

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Most gracious maisty, ’twas I that did it, but indeed it was so poor and frail a note, compared with such as I am wont to furnish, yt in sooth I was ashamed to call the weakling mine in so august a presence. It was nothing — less than nothing, madam — I did it but to clear my nether throat; but had I come prepared, then had I delivered something worthy. Bear with me, please your grace, till I can make amends. [Then delivered he himself of such a godless and rock-shivering blast that all were fain to stop their ears, and following it did come so dense and foul a stink that that which went before did seem a poor and trifling thing beside it.]
~Mark Twain

What my mother intended that I understand, however, was precisely this: No one wants to hear you make a big stink over nothing, so shut up. The strict linguist might want to note that the literal translation of that Chinese phrase runs along these noble lines: Loud farts don’t smell, the really smelly ones are deadly silent.
~Amy Tan

Humour has to have a huge nugget of truth to be funny. You cannot laugh at something unbelievable. Whenever I say something on a lighter note, I am basically unwrapping the truth from a different perspective, and that makes it funny.
~Twinkle Khanna

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I listened to this interview once with Jerry Seinfeld that really influenced my comedy and all of my writing, which is that when you’re starting out in comedy, it’s the audience that tells you what’s funny about you. And you need to listen to that and make a note of that.
~Mike Birbiglia

If you think of the people who are funny in your life, you’ll note it’s not because they tell jokes, it’s because of their character. If you develop characters, then you’ll know them, and you’ll know how they’ll speak. The comedy will come out of the character.
~Anne Beatts

Humour has to have a huge nugget of truth to be funny. You cannot laugh at something unbelievable. Whenever I say something on a lighter note, I am basically unwrapping the truth from a different perspective, and that makes it funny.
~Twinkle Khanna

Maybe there’s a sort of veneer of optimism about U.S. comedy, whereas perhaps in England, we don’t mind ending it on a sourer note.
~Stephen Merchant

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I moved to New York to go to Julliard Drama School. Didn’t sing a single note of music.
~Mandy Patinkin

Our first gig was a battle of the bands. We did 45 minutes of comedy and never played a note ‒ and we won!
~Cheech Marin

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I can hold a note as long as the Chase National Bank.
~Ethel Merman

I suppose any note, no matter how sour, sounds like a song if you hold onto it long enough.
~Dewitt Bodeen

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I wondher why ye can always read a doctor’s bill an’ ye niver can read his purscription. F’r all ye know, it may be a short note to th’ druggist askin’ him to hit ye on th’ head with a pestle.
~Finley Peter Dunne

I think it would be cool if you were writing a ransom note on your computer, if the paper clip popped up and said, ‘Looks like you’re writing a ransom note. Need help? You should use more forceful language, you’ll get more money.’
~Demetri Martin

You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said ‘Parking Fine.’
~Tommy Cooper

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Every male comedian of note who is over the age of 45 has a kid, and they talk about it and don’t get grouped as ‘dad comics.’
~Ali Wong

I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.
~Bernard Manning

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My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.
~Warren Beatty

Note to self: Never ride a motorcycle in stilettos and a miniskirt.
~Maggie Grace

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The silver swan, who, living had no note,
When death approached unlocked her silent throat.
~Orlando Gibbons

On a very personal note, my dear friend, the late Steve ‘Dr. Death’ Williams was a four-time amateur wrestling All-American who also lettered and started four years on the football team at Oklahoma. I’ve met no man walking the face of the earth tougher than Doc. R.I.P., my friend.
~Jim Ross

I think we could jam a bit more in our coffins than we do. I’m going to have some books, some I haven’t finished or haven’t read, some feathers and nice bits and pieces, the odd note. Just on the journey for the next bit.
~Joanna Lumley

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Sundance

© Greg Thweatt

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If my boyfriend was kicking me out of our house, I wouldn’t leave peacefully and leave a note. I would have trashed the place. It would have been a lot more traumatic.
~Julia Fox

I was sort of traumatized by girls in the third grade. Because there was a girl in my third grade class I had a crush on. I bought her a box of Valentine’s Day chocolate. And I put it in her cubby with a note that said something like, ‘I am deeply in love with you, Your Secret Admirer.’ And I didn’t sign my name.
~Steve Carell

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I was so boisterous in high-school, I don’t think a lot of boys liked me that much ’cause they were like, ‘Oh, she’s so loud and so crazy.’ But then this thing happens in your late twenties, and guys begin to take note of women’s personalities more or something.
~Ali Wong

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Jo left me a few months ago for 10 days. I get this note: I’ll come back when the real Ronnie comes back.
~Ronnie Wood

‘Othello‘ is the most domestic of Shakespeare’s tragedies and the one that’s likely to strike a personal note with a lot of people watching it.
~Andrew Davies

Consider what a romantic expedition you are on; take notes.
~Anne Boyd

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Put a love note in his shaving kit before he leaves on a business trip.
~H Jackson Brown, Jr

When you make his sandwiches, put a sexy or loving note in his lunch box.
~Anne Rice

I believe the core of most of us women is very simple. We want to feel appreciated, acknowledged, and something as simple as flowers with a little note or some love letters goes a long way.
~Yolanda Hadid

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A lady passed me a note in Australia one time that said, ‘My daughter gets bullied at school because she has two moms, and you know, we told her just to tell them to watch ‘Modern Family.’
~Eric Stonestreet

I do not think the gay population has been all that rabid for gay marriage. Note that I do not use the words ‘gay community.’ Expunge that expression from your vocabulary. We are not a community.
~Larry Kramer

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I try to gauge whether a girl likes me before I make a move. I would write a page-long note to a girl. If she wrote a whole page back, I knew she liked me, too. If she wrote back like two words, then I figured I’d move on.
~Devon Werkheiser

Everyone is different, but I’m not standoffish at all. I’m not one of those people who prefer to write a note. I’ll walk right up to you and ask you out! Even if the answer’s no, I’m totally cool with it.
~Corbin Bleu

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My wife and I, we knew each other back in 2001 but had fallen out of touch. One day, I had a dream about her and wrote her a note on Facebook – I was living in L.A. at the time – and that turned into six months of just letter-writing. It started off with Facebook messages and turned into emails and eventually became actual hand-written letters.
~David Lowery

At the end of the day, if the guy is going to write the girl a letter, whether it’s chicken scratch or scribble or looks like a doctor’s note, if he takes the time to put pen to paper and not type something, there’s something so incredibly romantic and beautiful about that.
~Meghan Markle

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Guys are not good under pressure. They’re just not good at multitasking, but on that note, we should be a bit less good at enabling them to, you know?
~Maria Cornejo

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I’m always asked how my husband is feeling about my success with a note of concern. He feels great. It’s not hard to feel good about your spouse making money.
~Ali Wong

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I’m not ashamed to confess that I often note down many of the crazy things my children say.
~Amitava Kumar

I don’t know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I’ve done it to a fare-thee-well.
~Sally Mann

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My father was in a dance band, and I wanted to do what he did, play the saxophone, but I couldn’t blow a note, so he suggested the guitar.
~Pete Townshend

…I want to tuck my son into bed and read him a story, but that means I have to take a red-eye to get to a concert ‒ which I would never think of doing otherwise ‒ that’s just the way it is. Even if I can’t hit the note that night, I got to tuck my child in!
~Idina Menzel

My father was a doctor, but his passion was making cars, and he was also very good at carpentry. He was a gem, and I don’t blame him for not understanding me. When I told him that I would be leaving, he checked his pocket and took out 100-rupee note and gave it to me. He did not like that I was leaving, yet he gave me the money.
~Harshvardhan Rane

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I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don’t inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it’s the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.
~Sam Waterston

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@Writers Platform

One day some years ago while reading Dombey and Son I came to Chapter 15, where, in the midst of the story, there were six words of exhortation and command: When found, make a note of. I reached for my notebook and made a note of Dicken’s note to make a note of what I had just found.
~Helen Smith Bevington

Fine phrases I value more than bank-notes. I have ear for no other harmony than the harmony of words. To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.
~Alexander Smith

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Books, I once noted grandly, embody the spirit’s dream of perpetual youth. What is important at these moments is not the contents of the books, but the idea of their existence. I have not read every one, nor is it likely that I will—but to know that I might!
~Sven Birkerts

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Fifty words is a strict form but if you write tiny and sneak over into the address side to squeeze in a hundred, the grace is gone and the result is not a poem but notes for a letter you don’t have time to write…
~Garrison Keillor

Wilde strikes an evangel note. It is a note that lifts itself through sorrow and slavery to joy and freedom. Puts seed in the ground. Into you. When a book stops doing that it is dead. No matter how pretty it may be as a corpse it is dead.
~Horace Traubel

I hear of many a latest book;
I note what zealous readers say;
Through columns critical I look,
With their decisive yea and nay!
At times I own I’m half inclined
O’er some new masterpiece to pore;
Yet in the end I always find
I choose the book I’ve read before!
~Charles R Ballard

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My second librarian position was in the vast brick buildings of Sears, Roebuck and Company, in 1911… No barriers limited what books we might give. One afternoon a note arrived by the pneumatic tube from a bubbling Irish girl in the bookkeeping division of the Grocery Department. It’s very slow here on this rainy day. Please send me one of those novels you have had to withdraw from circulation as unfit for a lady to read. Next day she returned the book, discretely wrapped, with this message. Blessings upon you! You are quite right. This is not fit for anybody to read. Please send another just like it.
~Althea Warren

If I could offer but one helpful hint to young Hoosiers hoping to better their odds for success in life, I would simply note the importance of thoughtful reading.
~Richard Lugar

In the summer, if he had no engagements, he would frequently lie in the sun and have a book read to him, from whence he made notes and extracts; he read nothing without making extracts from it, as indeed this was his constant method whatever book he read — for it was a maxim of his that no book was so bad but something might be learned from it.
~Pliny the Younger (of Pliny the Elder)

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It was a mark of Samuel Johnson’s genius that, armed with references from 150 years of English writings, he was able, and essentially single-handedly, to find and note almost every use of every word of the day… He finished amassing his list of the English word stock in 1750. He spent the next four years editing the citations and choosing the 118,000 illustrative quotations (sometimes by committing the heresy of changing quotes he didn’t like).
~Simon Winchester

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Poets have immortalised the Pansy. But the Pansy of the poet and the Pansy of the florist differ somewhat. The Pansy freaked with jet is the poet’s flower. The subject of these notes is of roundest form, its markings distinctly defined, it’s eye without fault — the Pansy of the florist… To some it is known simply as heart’s-ease.
~R P Brotherston

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I found a little book of Emily Dickinson poems in a Boston book-shop in 1891, and for thirty years it has had a special shrine in my memory. She is almost totally ignorant of form, careless of rhyme and rhythm, writing verse with the disregard of rules which a child might display, but seeing things with the vividness of St. Catherine’s vision of her Lord in the sunset sky, and with the same intense note of realism in reporting what she sees. She can say in four lines what a poet of profound literary artifice, such as Browning, would have required many pages to express.
~W J Dawson

Her swift poetic rapture was like the long glistening note of a bird one hears in the June woods at high noon, but can never see. Like a magician she caught the shadowy apparitions of her brain and tossed them in startling picturesqueness…
~Susan Huntington Gilbert Dickinson

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A semicomma, we should note, doesn’t exist; we just made the word up. But it sounds like a punctuation mark that should exist, doesn’t it?
~Richard Lederer and John Shore

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In every story I’ve written with Batman, there’s an element of justice ‒ you never want to have the story end on a defeatist or a cynical note.
~Paul Dini

The older books were quite light-hearted. But I think most of my novels do end on a deep note of pessimism. Shadows seem to be closing in. The final conclusion isn’t that life is wonderful and everything is bright and cheery and in the garden.
~Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

I keep trying to write happy endings, but my books always end on more of a bittersweet note of ambiguity.
~Stephen McCauley

Although the story of George and Lennie in ‘Of Mice and Men‘ ends on a depressing note, there is a peculiar aura of human dignity in it, a hint of redemption.
~Jay Parini

And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You’ll note there’s no science in it. It’s a kind of grim fantasy.
~Octavia E Butler

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I cried most days working on the first draft. The last scenes were the hardest. I had a feeling where I wanted to end ‒ the exact note ‒ but I couldn’t see how to get there. Sarah Murphy, my editor, asked the right questions to help me. I think of ‘The Bear‘ as a hopeful book.
~Claire Cameron

I feel like I need to give people a note with the book that says, ‘I’m OK, no worries!’
~Gillian Flynn

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I’m still learning a lot as a songwriter. I try to write down and make a note of ideas that I cross paths with on a day-to-day basis, whether it be a conversation or something I hear on the radio, seeing a movie, or just thoughts in my head as I’m walking down the street.
~Sam Hunt

I have a huge note on my phone where things just start popping up. It doesn’t make that much sense to me at the time, but once a song is finished, I can read into it and figure out who the characters are in my life.
~Lucy Dacus

The ‘I Wanna Dance‘ hook actually came to me when I was in bed and just in that lucid moment between consciousness and sleep… I jumped out of bed and recorded a voice note of the vocal hook and I went into the studio the next day fully inspired.
~Jonas Blue

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It’s kind of a mysterious process, but something will catch my attention, and I’ll make a note about it. I may even write a few pages about it, and then I’ll put it aside, but I’ll sort of keep it in mind. Then as time goes on, other things will gather to it as if it’s a magnet, almost, and eventually, there’s enough to make the story.
~Kim Edwards

A great deal of creativity is about pattern recognition, and what you need to discern patterns is tons of data. Your mind collects that data by taking note of random details and anomalies easily seen every day: quirks and changes that, eventually, add up to insights.
~Margaret Heffernan

I start with a beat sheet, which is more of an abbreviated outline. It hits all the major plot points. From there, I move to note cards. But the most important part of my process is my inspiration board.
~Kami Garcia

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I’m surely not the only one to notice we employ metaphors to make sense of the news. I always like to take note of who hides their origins and who shows them off.
~Jenny Zhang

People say, ‘Oh, you’re doing the job of journalists.’ I think it’s very important to note that we can’t do our job without journalists. Journalists can do their job without late-night comedians. They’d be just fine without us. But we, of course, use their work every day to build our pieces.
~Seth Meyers

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Whenever I’ve had to tamper with history for plot purposes, I make sure to mention that in my author’s note, and I try to keep such tampering to a bare minimum. I also attempt to keep my characters true to their historical counterparts. This is not always possible, of course.
~Sharon Kay Penman

By the time I sit down ready to write, I’ve done a lot of longhand and a lot of note collecting along the way.
~Jill McCorkle

In a short story, you can use someone ‒ we’re only going to be with that person for maybe 10 pages, and they can have sort of a one note personality. And in a novel, you need to have arrows pointing more than one direction for that person.
~Rebecca Makkai

I do write long, long character notes – family background, history, details of appearance – much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage.
~Anne Tyler

I had written a novel that was more of a classic linear novel, and I worked on it and worked on it for years, and it always seemed like it wouldn’t catch fire. At a certain point I just scrapped it all, and I kept maybe 15 percent of it, and I wrote those parts out on note cards.
~Jenny Offill

Writing with Scissors (collecting, note-keeping, remaking)
~Peter Stillman

I never make a note of anything; I never even write a plot down.
~Andrew Scott

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Bookstores are emotional places both for their patrons and for the employees. They are built on the sweat and tears of hardworking people, each bookshelf lined with the lifework of hundreds of artists. Each of those books represent endless hours of grind and toil. Often the bookstore owner and employees are also writers. Is there a space with more fulfilled or unfulfilled dreams?
~Bob Eckstein (Introduction to Footnotes from the World’s Greatest Bookstores)

Writing blurbs for books means you have to read the book, and it cuts into the business of bookselling. So every time I get a blurb from a bookseller, I try to write a thank you note.
~Gabrielle Zevin

When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author.
~Sherman Alexie

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Most of the noted literary men have indulged in the prudent habit of selecting favorite passages for future reference.
~Charles F Schutz,

There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first getting the author’s permission. It ought to be made much more difficult to do than that.
~Robert Benchley

For me, I am really interested in how I can stretch myself to produce things. If, in the process, others take note and recognise that, then wonderful.
~Uzodinma Iweala

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I remember telling my creative writing teacher that you never want to have a journal, because if you lose it, then someone’s going to know all your secrets. And then she stopped using a journal, but I always write everything down… Anytime I travel, I try and fill up notepads.
~Garrett Hedlund

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I don’t shape trends, I’d say. I merely reflect them. I think the emphasis is on ‘them.’ I like variety in poetry. I love how it comes in so many guises. As rock lyric, as rap, as note on a fridge.
~Paul Muldoon

I thought I had to write literature and add my name to the list of great Southern storytellers. Fortunately for me, no one wanted to read any of those stories. They got rejected by everyone. Sometimes, I would get a note saying they liked the writing, but the story simply didn’t work.
~Karin Slaughter

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The man who writes a single line,
And hears it often quoted,
Will in his life time surely shine,
And be hereafter noted.
~Frederic Swartwout Cozzens

Shake was a dramatist of note;
He lived by writing things to quote.
~H C Bunner

There’s not a note of mine that’s worth the noting.
~William Shakespeare

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Quoting is, by a stroke of the pen,
making memories of amassed wisdom
and books and famous thought,
pictures of the mind of a writer,
the essential oil of truth in a notebook,
a catalogue of wonder and the universe;
copying pure nuggets on every page —
wise men and women, sages honoured;
making abstracts — every drop, truth.
~Terri Guillemets

Seek not to know who said this or that, but take note of what has been said.
~Thomas à Kempis

Books of quotations are an elemental model of how culture is perpetuated, the wisdom of the tribe passed on to posterity, to be added to, edited, and modified by subsequent generations. …The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations is a book intended for our own times; its keynote is not familiarity, but aptness. It embraces the past in order to illustrate the present.
~Robert Andrews

A box, where sweets compacted lie…
~George Herbert [Context note: William Watson, 1883, uses this phrase to describe epigrams—tεᖇᖇ¡·g]

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Only the use of footnotes enables historians to make their texts not monologues but conversations, in which modern scholars, their predecessors, and their subjects all take part.
~Anthony Grafton

Had we lived I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale.
~Robert Falcon Scott (ill-fated Terra Nova expedition, Antarctica, 1912)

Words, — so innocent and powerless as they, as standing in a dictionary; how potent for good and evil they become to one who knows how to combine them!
~Nathaniel Hawthorne (note-books)

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Prewritten Prompt: note

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‘Religion,’ I should note, has a disputed etymology in Latin: some say it’s from relegere, meaning ‘to reread‘, while others say it’s from religare, meaning to connect or link. Literature is life’s fastener.
~Joshua Cohen

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The incomparable greatness of the religions of the East lies in their having been second to none in vibrating with the passion for unity. This note, which is essential to every form of mysticism, has even penetrated them so deeply that we find ourselves falling under a spell simply by uttering the names of their Gods.
~Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

For a lot of folks who get sober, the process of getting and staying sober becomes their higher power, and it becomes a religion that sort of consumes a whole lot of them. I just don’t think that that’s necessary. I think that that can be a side note rather than the story of your life.
~Jason Isbell

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We must, however, note that what are usually called the high religions made their appearance within about twenty-five hundred years ‒ most of them within fifteen hundred years.
~Kenneth Scott Latourette

Failure to take note of the fact that the character of twentieth-century humanity differs from that of humanity in the fifteenth century, let alone before and at the time of the Mystery of Golgotha, is to sleep through the process of world evolution.
~Rudolf Steiner

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It’s interesting to note that all revolutionary literature was written by pastors. These guys were involved in a revolution against the mightiest power that the world had ever seen.
~Randall Terry

On a personal note, myself, I find religion ‒ I can understand it, I can understand why we have it, as a kind of force on the planet. And I also at the same time think it’s ludicrous.
~James Callis

I don’t believe in the afterlife, so I do think when somebody passes, it’s worthy of note.
~Harvey Fierstein

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Truly, there is a Christian note which makes the whole World vibrate, like an immense gong, in the divine Christ. This note is unique and universal, and in it alone consists the Gospel.
~Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Whether you like it or not, when you claim to be a Christian, the world takes note.
~Monica Johnson

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man’s anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.
~Beverly Sills

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I always thought every day was a gift, but now I am looking for where to send the thank you note.
~Randy Pausch

What I’ve learned is there’s a scientifically proven phenomenon that’s attached to gratitude, and that if you consciously take note of what is good in your life, quantifiable benefits happen.
~Deborah Norville

In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.
~Francis Schaeffer

Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.
~Francis Hutcheson

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I like the two worlds coming together in the Internet space, which is so up for grabs… It all struck me when I heard about Twitter and Instagram, how it’s like notes you pass in class. If someone’s passing you a note, you really should be doing something else, and instead you’re like, oh, ‘What are you doing?’
~Parker Posey

Relationships are so important to me. Talking to someone, listening to them, and even writing a handwritten note or giving someone a picture in a frame has become a lost art because we are inclined to just do it all through technology.
~Natalya Neidhart

Sadly, e-mail has triggered the decline of the handwritten note; I have seen its near-disappearance in my lifetime.
~Jami Attenberg

I can’t predict how reading habits will change. But I will say that the greatest loss is the paper archive – no more a great stack of manuscripts, letters, and notebooks from a writer’s life, but only a tiny pile of disks, little plastic cookies where once were calligraphic marvels.
~Paul Theroux

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Texting is a supremely secretive medium of communication ‒ it’s like passing a note ‒ and this means we should be very careful what we use it for.
~Lynne Truss

The podcast ‘Note to Self‘ is ‘the tech show about being human’. Human notions of privacy have changed.
~David Hepworth

When I worry about privacy, I worry about peer-to-peer invasion of privacy. About the fact that anytime anything of any note happens, there are three arms holding cell phones with cameras in them or video records capturing the event ready to go on the nightly news, if necessary.
~Jonathan Zittrain

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I am traditional: a big note writer, and I like using the phone.
~Allison Williams

Almost every time I go to the ocean, I think about throwing my phone right into it. Sometimes, you pull that thing out of your pocket, you look at it, and you’re like, ‘What was I just going to do with this? Was I going to take a note? Was I going to check my email? Was I going to take a picture?’
~Jim James

I’m definitely a note taker.
~Marc Randolph

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People don’t want to believe that technology is broken. Pharmaceuticals, robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology – all these areas where the progress has been a lot more limited than people think. And the question is why.
~Peter Thiel

Nanotechnology will let us build computers that are incredibly powerful. We’ll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in the entire world today.
~Ralph Merkle

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Protein engineering is a technology of molecular machines – of molecular machines that are part of replicators – and so it comes from an area that already raises some of the issues that nanotechnology will raise.
~K Eric Drexler

Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.
~Vernor Vinge

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I didn’t know why I couldn’t sing ‒ all I knew was that it was muscular or mechanical. Then, when I was diagnosed with Parkinson’s, I was finally given the reason. I now understand that no one can sing with Parkinson’s disease. No matter how hard you try. And in my case, I can’t sing a note.
~Linda Ronstadt

I was onstage one night and was singing. I hit one note, and I just doubled over. It was like being punched hard in the back. I couldn’t put my back up on the plane seat because of the pain. I got massages, thinking it was muscle spasms. The doctor told me at the time that it was my pancreas. I didn’t even know.
~Sharon Jones

On a personal note: I have contracted an outstanding case of breast cancer, from which I intend to recover. I don’t need get-well cards, but I would like the beloved women readers to do something for me: Go. Get. The. Damn. Mammogram. Done.
~Molly Ivins

I cannot too often repeat that patients are generally either too languid to observe certain things, or too shy to speak about them. Again, I say, what is the nurse or friend there for except to take note of these things? If you cannot get the habit of observation one way or other, you had better give up the being a nurse, for it is not your calling, however kind or ardent you may be.
~Florence Nightingale

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It is important to note that most of the patients in Ohio’s mental health facilities have never committed crimes. They are institutionalised because they have lost touch with reality and are having problems functioning unaided in the community.
~Louis Theroux

In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient’s condition. Usually this is a member of the family.
~Alfred Adler

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It is important to note that there are no age limitations on who can donate organs and tissue. Newborns as well as senior citizens have been organ donors.
~Vic Snyder

Also note that invariably when we design something that can be used by those with disabilities, we often make it better for everyone.
~Donald Norman

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Note to academics: Aristarchus’ track record of astronomical research would probably have guaranteed him tenure somewhere, if tenure had been invented. His stack of reprints included measuring the distances of the Moon and Sun. (320 BC ‒ 210 BC)
~Seth Shostak

First of all, we must note that the universe is spherical.
~Nicolaus Copernicus (1473 ‒ 1543)

It is of great importance to note these meteors, even the small ones, as very little is yet known of them; and every observation, if carefully made, will some day help to show what they are.
~William John Wills (1834 ‒ 1861)

We wind a simple ring of iron with coils; we establish the connections to the generator, and with wonder and delight we note the effects of strange forces which we bring into play, which allow us to transform, to transmit and direct energy at will.
~Nikola Tesla (1856 ‒ 1943)

In the end, I hope there’s a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer.
~Steve Wozniak (1950 ‒ )

If an alien visited Earth, they would take some note of humans, but probably spend most of their time trying to understand the dominant form of life on our planet – microorganisms like bacteria and viruses.
~Nathan Wolfe

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Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody taught me. I sounded like a grown-up, and then I learned how to read music. I played so well by ear I could fool the teacher to believe I could play the notes. She’d make the mistake of playing the song once, and I could play it.
~Valerie Simpson

I can sing in my head and rearrange the tune of a song, note per note. I am a nerd.
~Catriona Gray

I was a total education geek. I loved school. I loved learning. I loved doing homework. All of my books and notebooks from high school are underlined and highlighted and there are notes all over the margins. And you know, I was a theater kid too. I was all over the place.
~Sophia Bush

I learn fast and I take note of what I’ve been told.
~Jay Kay

I’m not a policy oriented person. I’m constrained to what I study. But educational policy has not yet taken adequate note of the whole child. Kids are not just their IQ or standardized test scores. It matters whether or not they show up, how hard they work.
~Angela Duckworth

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You know, I used to warm the thermometer on the light bulb… I was really good at being sick. I could forge my mother’s signature on a sick note so well I was hardly ever at school.
~Graydon Carter

I wasn’t that over-the-top, but I got sent to the principal in first grade for talking. And my father was for a long time the president of the Board of Education. That was always a hard note to bring home.
~Barbara Park

The Professional Children’s School, it’s for professional kids, so if you wanted to ditch, you could just write, Audition on a note and leave. I didn’t really like school all that much.
~Kieran Culkin

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In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get out their notes and open their books. There is no such thing as being forbidden to ask the teacher or another student for help.
~William Glasser

At ‘The School of Life’, we take seriously anything that has to do with human fulfilment ‒ and take note wherever insight on this subject can be found.
~Alain de Botton

In many ways, ‘What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World‘ is just one big thank-you note to my teachers. The book is dedicated to my fifth and sixth grade English teacher, Dr. Joseph D’Angelo, a massive force of erudition, martial artistry, culture, and love.
~Taylor Mali

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The important thing to note is that it is not important whether Malala was shot or not ‒ Malala is not asking for personal favors or support. She is asking for support with girls’ education and women’s rights. So don’t support Malala, support her campaign for girls’ education and women’s rights.
~Malala Yousafzai

Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.
~Ovid

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§ The Exercise:

assured

love will end on a sad note
time will be the agent
and scene of the crime,
because it must

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newsual: rhymes w/ usual

noted bombastic
center stage fanatic
connection fantastic
going ballistic
think, up jurassic
no tact its only tactic

noetic spastic
scrambled phonetics
mob scene frenetic
lawyer frantic
newsreel dramatic
noteworthy, hectic

there’s some on the block
who think it’s a crock
thick as mud and a rock
more tick and less talk

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angsty ditties #27

not a note left to write
not a song worth a cry
now the day drawing nigh
dream the sweet by and by
life as quest without why

need a reason to try
need a cause to comply
grief as a power to reply
one light defined, the dark side denied
weaponize hope to an actionable size

pics posted of questionable fights
questions posed never edified
world getting worse quick on the sly
consider the low-road reasons to die
ponder with a puff and go with the high

chorus:
oh, the well has run dry
nothing good left to buy
knuckled fist to the eye
aye, it’s all gone awry

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of roads

Of roads we note these things:
— that not all roads traveled are apt to the eye

— that the road to discovery my survive the injury
of a timetable, or the insult of a destination,
but not both

— if there is sorrow over a road that separates,
that same road unites

— of the road that leads from legend can take you
home again

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some forgotten

the wounded and weary
the taken turned wary
reenacted with pageantry
lesser legends don’t vary
end viciously scary
maliciously gory
conspicuously dreary, or
deliciously contrary

yes there be places of shelter
relayed in stories more stellar
less wishful and starry-eyed
more wistful and rarefied
more storied less glorified
first-become-last horrified
bold endings that become some
sold out garden’s old wisdom

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A Simulation

Love as false as a SIMM phony chip?
Just read what it says on the card
Please check the accent to use
Note its author, the Bard

That’s not true, this is a ruse and abuse
Brad, Mr Bard, up in Marketing
Bad poetry, his escape and only thing
Poisonously bad is what makes it sing

You’ve tried the new AI?
We did, couldn’t get it right
Work that bad takes a dark genius
And our AI was much too bright

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@heaven’s gate

note the eighty eight and the 85 keys
the piano and spinet
rolling thunder to the one hand
articulate delicacy on the breeze
then having the haven accordion
accordingly requires but 41
each a voice for the pantheon
you get to pick one for your holy one

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5s ‘n 7s

green turned gold sun-fed pastures
patchwork fields textures captured
treetop games, wind-play raptures
wild sculpt crowns edge the skyline
marbled emeralds sunset time
forget love, there’s more sublime
note nature’s beauty, make it rhyme

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Of pressroom legends
Grave notes, news censorious
Brave Journalist Slain
Stopped the press and a bullet
World might guess she knew too much

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wayward dog roadside
asleep in the deep soft grass
but note the half-smile
easeful death waiting wayside
still chest at rest, peace at last

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note: pizzas can think
only sentience can talk
last piece called my name

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noteworthy newscap
nothing newsworthy happened
first yin then the yang

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Please note the straight lines
Ruled space for your convenience
Outliers at risk

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The Olio and Salmagundi of Quotes

May. — The very word makes the heart leap. Birds, Buds, Blossoms, Beauty! Break away from every bondage of circumstance or low spirits and go out into the sunshine. Answer back the bird-note in your heart, kiss your finger tips to every new blossom, and be a part of the spring.
~Eva D Kellogg, May

It’s interesting to note that when something like a virus tries to poison us, the first thing our bodies do is heat up. We burn away the infection. Maybe that’s what Earth is doing to us.
~Simon Toyne

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You can be creative and not addictive, or addictive and not creative. Most addicted people do not produce anything of remarkable note.
~Anne Roiphe

When you’re playing someone who drinks a lot, it’s not that interesting to play that condition because as soon as you know that, you got all the information you’re going to get from it. It’s like hitting the same note on the piano over and over again.
~Jared Harris

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[H]e repeated very frequently and always with a profounder note of derision that exploded proverb: ‘In the Country of the Blind the One-eyed Man is King…’ Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds… either from coming out of the light or from going into the light…
~H G Wells

Know where to find the sunrise and sunset times and note how the sky looks at those times, at least once.
~Marilyn vos Savant

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I am all for greening tall buildings, but I’m also very keen to note that greening a building doesn’t cope with the problem of the tall building in the texture of the city.
~Joseph Rykwert

Even on a personal note, my dressing table downstairs is crowded with things, like a mini landscape. It’s a city with buildings and towers and roads. There’s a pool and a little park. When I move something around it becomes a different tableau.
~Tony Curtis

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For this hour, I ask you to ignore the surface-glamour of existence, the buzzing and jigging and vibration of small interests and excitements that form the tissue of our ordinary consciousness, and instead turn your attention to the profounder bass-note of life.
~William James

Sing with the heart, even if you cannot with the voice. It matters little how out of tune may be the external life, if the internal life is harmonious. It is said that high above the earth there is a point where all the noises of the world blend in one note.
~Howard W Tilton

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I continue to work on plays, but I’ve always felt that you could put a note in a bottle and send it offshore, and you’d have as much chance communicating with people.
~Lewis Black

When I was 10 years old, I threw a bottle with a note in it in the ocean in Massachusetts, and Harrison Salisbury found it and contacted me. We began a correspondence that lasted for years, and I eventually met him when I was 18.
~Amor Towles

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If you look at the drawings of aliens made by people who believe that Earth is under saucer attack, you’ll quickly note that most of these invaders fit the Tinseltown mold. But you have to admit: the grays are highly anthropomorphic.
~Seth Shostak

I believe we have a double in every country. There’s something about that that is probably a commonness that we don’t make note of. That maybe there’s only a cast for so many faces, and we live everywhere.
~Richie Havens

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The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses.
~Thomas Huxley

Love, hope, fear, faith ‒ these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.
~Robert Browning

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Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.
~Charles Reade

Live honestly to a higher note. Life is too short. So, do the best you can and live your life to a higher note.
~Kimora Lee Simmons

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Fun Tarts: https://gocomics.com

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THIS EDITION: worth

It is not worth an intelligent man’s time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
~G H Hardy

Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
~Clarence Darrow

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.
~Reinhold Niebuhr

EndQuote:
But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having.
~John Perry Barlow

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Next Prompt: note

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Editor’s note: I will be returning to Colombia to finish the seventh and concluding book in my Archipelago & Oakley series. This edition of Wordgrove’s Post & Review is nearly twice the usual length, enough to provide you with thoughtful distraction until it resumes sometime in June.

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Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

A life lived unexplored is a life not worth living.
~Kirk Hammett

To find in ourselves what makes life worth living is risky business, for it means that once we know we must seek it. It also means that without it life will be valueless.
~Marsha Sinetar

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It’s faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr

I want to be remembered for doing something bigger than myself and making a positive impact on the world. I want to make my life worth something and to die a legend and to make my family proud.
~Jessie Reyez

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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
~Edith Wharton

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals this alone is worth the struggle.
~William Osler

I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.
~Walter Savage Landor

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Start with big dreams and make life worth living.
~Stephen Richards

All the things that are worth doing, take time.
~Mos Def

The secret is not to give up hope. It’s very hard not to because if you’re really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.
~George Lucas

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If you don’t know your own value, somebody will tell you your value, and it’ll be less than you’re worth.
~Bernard Hopkins

Know your worth! People always act like they’re doing more for you than you’re doing for them.
~Kanye West

Deal with yourself as a individual, worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same way.
~Nikki Giovanni

If believing in yourself and going after what you want in life and realising your worth is ruthless and selfish, then I’m definitely ruthless and selfish.
~Nicole Scherzinger

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Well, first of all, I’m worth every penny.
~Howard Stern

I’m high maintenance, but I’m worth it.
~Lara Logan

I make a lot of money and I’m worth every cent.
~Naomi Campbell

I was impressed by the Taj Mahal. A good bit of work, well looked after, worth paying money to see.
~Karl Pilkington

A good jolly is worth what you pay for it.
~George Ade

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I’m laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing.
~Carlos Santana

Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.
~Thomas A Edison

No one can figure out your worth but you.
~Pearl Bailey

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A true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.
~Cullen Hightower

The success is worth nothing to me if I can’t share it with the people I love.
~Michael Buble

When you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favor on all.
~Publilius Syrus

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People can do more than they ever believe they can do. Physically, mentally, academically. You have to be pushed. It hurts. But it’s worth it, and it’s a great thing.
~Sugar Ray Leonard

Self worth sets the standard that life meets.
~Jewel

Strong people have a strong sense of self-worth and self-awareness; they don’t need the approval of others.
~Roy T Bennett

When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inward and examine ourselves.
~Confucius

We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
~Malcolm X

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.
~Lucius Annaeus Seneca

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
~Robert Louis Stevenson

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Suppose, however thickly evils crowd upon you, that your unconquerable subjectivity proves to be their match, and that you find a more wonderful joy than any passive pleasure can bring in trusting ever in the larger whole. Have you not now made life worth living on these terms? What sort of a thing would life really be, with your qualities ready for a tussle with it, if it only brought fair weather and gave these higher faculties of yours no scope?
~William James

With many men the question of life’s worth is answered by a temperamental optimism which makes them incapable of believing that anything seriously evil can exist. Our dear old Walt Whitman’s works are the standing text-book of this kind of optimism. The mere joy of living is so immense in his veins that it abolishes the possibility of any other kind of feeling:
~William James

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
~Ernest Hemingway

These, then, are my last words to you: Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
~William James

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Posted From The Grove

Land: A part of the earth’s surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.
~Ambrose Bierce

Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for ‘Tis the only thing in this world that lasts, ‘Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for ‒ worth dying for.
~Margaret Mitchell

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Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can’t win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.
~Patricia Ireland

The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.
~Samuel Adams

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
~John Stuart Mill

May we understand that that which is worth having costs time, costs labor, and sometimes blood.
~Charles F Raymond

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life – knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
~Aristotle

Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
~Norman Schwarzkopf

To die for one’s country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.
~Pierre Corneille

Democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.
~Ronald Reagan

Liberty is worth paying for.
~Jules Verne

There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.
~Tom Robbins

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There is nothing worth having that can he obtained by nuclear war – nothing material or ideological – no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating.
~George Wald

I think a submarine is a very worthwhile weapon. I believe we can defend ourselves with submarines and all our troops back at home. This whole idea that we have to be in 130 countries and 900 bases… is an old-fashioned idea.
~Ron Paul

The target of preventive war must have several characteristics. It must be virtually defenceless; it must be important enough to be worth the trouble; it must be possible to portray it as the ultimate evil and an imminent threat to our survival.
~Noam Chomsky

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Nato has always acted according to a simple principle: it is not worth attacking somebody who is strong.
~Andrzej Duda

It was in our power to set high price for our blood, a price too high for the Arab community, the Arab army, or the Arab governments to think it worth paying.
~Moshe Dayan

Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
~Nancy Pelosi

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All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary.
~Andrew Jackson

As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.
~Andrew Jackson

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Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.
~Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.
~Milton Friedman

The United States established itself as a trustworthy new nation in its first two decades after the Revolutionary War by paying its debts, even when many in the country believed it had no obligation to do so. Alexander Hamilton, the founder of this newspaper, insisted on it.
~John Podhoretz (New York Post)

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The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country.
~James Otis

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.
~Theodore Roosevelt

Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.
~Pat Riley

We must prove ourselves worthy of our fellow citizens’ faith. We must be trusted to always place the public’s good above our own and to always choose fairness over favoritism.
~Jodi Rell

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I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.
~Queen Elizabeth II

To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth.
~Baltasar Gracian

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When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
~Adam Weishaupt

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A feeling of self worth is the best accomplishment we can foster in our prisons.
~Yolanda King

The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
~John Dewey

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
~Socrates

No, when the fight begins within himself,
A man’s worth something.
~Robert Browning

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I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.
~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I’m not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
~Adlai E Stevenson

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Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way.
~John Morley

Respect for another man’s opinion is worthy. It is the realization that any opinion is valuable, for it is the sign of a rational being.
~Sargent Shriver

The fact is that our opinion on an infinitely large number of questions is not worth having, because everyone is infinitely ignorant.
~Theodore Dalrymple

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One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
~Woodrow Wilson

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.
~Thomas B Macaulay

The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him.
~Henry L Stimson

Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body – by judicious, daily exercise. To be known as a man of sound judgement will be much in your favor.
~Grantland Rice

Government has the role of suiting people for freedom. People aren’t made for freedom spontaneously. There’s sort of a 19-year race between when people are born and when they become adults. And government has a role in making them, at the end of 19 years, suited to be upright, trustworthy repositories of popular sovereignty.
~George Will

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You are a human being. You have rights inherent in that reality. You have dignity and worth that exists prior to law.
~Lyn Beth Neylon

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The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn’t mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.
~Johnny Depp

To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
~Og Mandino

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.
~William Congreve

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Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.
~Andrew Jackson

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
~Mahatma Gandhi

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It will give them the opportunity to show themselves worthy of the respect and friendship of peace-loving nations, and in time, to take an honorable place among members of the United Nations.
~James F Byrnes

As citizens, we have to co-create good governance, we cannot outsource it and hope to be passively happy consumers. Like everything worth its while, good governance must be earned.
~Rohini Nilekani

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A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.
~Charles Spurgeon

Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.
~Chuck Norris

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There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism.
~Alexander Hamilton

Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.
~George Santayana

I think the sooner that all of us in society stop accepting any type of bullying or harassment from other people ‒ in spite of people’s social standing or net worth or whatever it is ‒ the sooner it will stop.
~Jason Priestley

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Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.
~Nicolas Chamfort

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.
~Jean Paul

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
~Evelyn Waugh

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Kneeling for the anthem does nothing to advance solutions to racial injustice, police brutality, or any other social plight. It is a slap in the face to patriotism itself. It is a statement that America as a country is no longer worth standing for.
~Matt Gaetz

Protest may overheat the blood, but its worth is starting the conversation.
~author unknown

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The fight for justice against corruption is never easy. It never has been and never will be. It exacts a toll on our self, our families, our friends, and especially our children. In the end, I believe, as in my case, the price we pay is well worth holding on to our dignity.
~Frank Serpico

Americans have always prized individuality… but America is a community that draws strength from the sum of our people and has always known that the total of that sum is worth far more than its individual parts.
~Evan Bayh

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Tolerance says I am just going to stomach your right to be different. That if you disappear from the face of the earth, I am no better or worse off. But love ‒ love knows that every American has worth and value
~Cory Booker

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To force a change, sometimes you need to stand up. You know what you’re worth ‒ rather than what your employer is paying you.
~Alex Morgan

It is a fine game to play ‒ the game of politics ‒ and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.
~Winston Churchill

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Naturally, when it comes to voting, we in Texas are accustomed to discerning that fine hair’s-breadth worth of difference that makes one hopeless dipstick slightly less awful than the other. But it does raise the question: Why bother?
~Molly Ivins

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Until you’ve looked a parent in the eye and told them their perfect child has a preexisting condition no insurance company will cover, you can’t tell me the Affordable Care Act isn’t worth fighting for.
~Ralph Northam

Paid leave is worth every penny.
~Stephen A Schwarzman

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It’s very important for people to know themselves and understand what their value system is, because if you don’t know what your value system is, then you don’t know what risks are worth taking and which ones are worth avoiding.
~Ben Carson

Some values must be universal, like human rights and the equal worth of every human being.
~Bjorn Ulvaeus

Equity everywhere is worth fighting for.
~John Fetterman

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Remember that the revolution is what is important, and each one of us, alone, is worth nothing.
~Che Guevara

Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
~Georges Jacques Danton (stormed Bastille)

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No member of our generation who wasn’t a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
~Lyndon B Johnson

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I’m not afraid of confrontation. It doesn’t have to be an argument. We all have a voice. And they are all worth listening to.
~Adam Goodes

In the last analysis, our every right is only worth what our lawyer makes it worth.
~Robert Kennedy

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There are so many people who are arguing or fighting over issues which don’t have much relevance. We must all realise it is not worth it.
~Kalpana Chawla

If you have something to say of any worth then people will listen to you.
~Oscar Peterson

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I’m not convinced that every secret has to be published. I think there are secrets worth keeping, and I think there are secrets not worth keeping.
~Seymour Hersh

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The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.
~Jimmy Carter

There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.
~Michelle Obama

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~Gabe Smart: Worth It (1:10) need inspiration?

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~Employzen: Self Worth (1:19) object lesson, convincingly val

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~Naghmeh Pour: Iran-e Man (2:13) a people worthy of their country

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When you’re bringing an idea to fruition, there are two distinct phases: the skeptic phase and the evangelist phase. During the first phase, you have to be willing to ask the hardest questions ‒ is this idea worth pursuing? But once you are convinced, you flip a switch. It’s about getting it done.
~Daniel Lubetzky

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
~Theodore Roosevelt

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
~Thomas A Edison

PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves are probably quite worthy.
~Diane Wakoski

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
~Plato

The only secret of magic is that I’m willing to work harder on it than you think it’s worth.
~Penn Jillette

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All the time I was striving to be a man amongst men, and all the time I nursed secret and shameful desires for candy… I used to indulge in lonely debauches… I would go up to the Free Library, exchange my books, buy a quarter’s worth of all sorts of candy that chewed and lasted, sneak aboard the Razzle Dazzle, lock myself in the cabin, go to bed, and lie there long hours of bliss, reading and chewing candy. And those were the only times I felt that I got my real money’s worth. Dollars and dollars, across the bar, couldn’t buy the satisfaction that twenty-five cents did in a candy store.
~Jack London

I was always a kid trying to make a buck. I borrowed a dollar from my dad, went to the penny candy store, bought a dollar’s worth of candy, set up my booth, and sold candy for five cents apiece. Ate half my inventory, made $2.50, gave my dad back his dollar.
~Guy Fieri

I discovered at age 13 that if a spoon had ‘Sterling’ on the back, it was worth money. I’d run around a swap meet and find 20 in a day, make 75 to 100 bucks by finding silver spoons.
~Rick Harrison

Be a worthy worker and work will come.
~Amit Kalantri

I’ve always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that’s the real test.
~Robert Fulghum

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This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.
~William James

You are essentially who you create yourself to be and all that occurs in your life is the result of your own making.
~Stephen Richards

Your net worth can fluctuate, but your self-worth should only appreciate.
~Chris Gardner

Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risk.
~Shirley Hufstedler

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Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable.
~Meir Kahane

I don’t covet images or belongings. My television set and video are rented, any paintings aren’t worth a fortune, and money is of little interest.
~Benny Hill

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
~Henry Ward Beecher

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
~Thomas Jefferson

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People can do more than they ever believe they can do. Physically, mentally, academically. You have to be pushed. It hurts. But it’s worth it, and it’s a great thing.
~Sugar Ray Leonard

Doing hard things is worth it in the end. And not doing hard things doesn’t really leave you with much. So keep pushing. Keep going. Keep working hard. And keep enjoying the journey.
~Paul Holte

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
~Booker T Washington

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Businesses have come and gone at Homeboy Industries. We have had starts and stops, but anything worth doing is worth failing at. We started Homeboy Plumbing. That didn’t go so well. Who knew? People didn’t want gang members in their homes. I just didn’t see that coming.
~Greg Boyle

Maybe you will be afraid and maybe you will fail, but the courage to take risks in any part of your life is, I feel, a very worthwhile way to live.
~Emile Hirsch

I bought a company in the mid-’90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I’ve made lots of dumb decisions. That’s part of the game.
~Warren Buffett

Uncertainty doesn’t make life worth living, quite, but it does make striving and gambling worth attempting.
~Walter Kirn

My motto is more, ‘If you want to find something new, look for something new!’ There is a certain amount of risk in this attitude, as even the slightest failure tends to be resounding, but you are so happy when you succeed that it is worth taking the risk.
~Yves Chauvin (Nobel, chemist)

People who don’t gamble aren’t worth talking to.
~Isoroku Yamamoto

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Millions of dollars’ worth of advertising shows such little respect for the reader’s intelligence that it amounts almost to outright insult.
~James Randolph Adams

I do believe that there are some universal cognitive tasks that are deep and profound – indeed, so deep and profound that it is worthwhile to understand them in order to design our displays in accord with those tasks.
~Edward Tufte

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Assume the best intent in others around you. You will often be right, and even when you’re not, people can rise to your view of them. Not always, but enough that I believe it’s worth it.
~Sallie Krawcheck

APPRECIATE everything your associates do for the business… Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They’re absolutely free — and worth a fortune.
~Sam Walton

Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.
~James Cash Penney

However strong, however imposing a ship may appear, it is not ‘disgraced’ because it flies before the tempest. A commander ought always to remember that a man’s life is worth more than the mere satisfaction of his own pride. In any case, to be obstinate is blameable, and to be wilful is dangerous.
~Jules Verne

One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without.
~Elizabeth I

Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.
~William Penn

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The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.
~Albert Schweitzer

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Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thousand CEO speeches. CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the jerks for you. It’s just cultural. People just don’t want to do it.
~Jack Welch

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Behind every small business, there’s a story worth knowing. All the corner shops in our towns and cities, the restaurants, cleaners, gyms, hair salons, hardware stores – these didn’t come out of nowhere.
~Paul Ryan

It’s worth noting that everything ‒ from the Internet to electric cars, genomic sequencing, mobile apps, and social media ‒ were pioneered by startups, not existing companies.
~Steve Blank

A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.
~Marcus Aurelius

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Because bankers measure their self-worth in money, and pay themselves a lot of it, they think they’re fine fellows and don’t need to explain themselves.
~James Buchan

It’s a terribly hard job to spend a billion dollars and get your money’s worth.
~George M Humphrey

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Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him.
~Anna Julia Cooper

The Great Inflation of the 1970s destroyed faith in paper assets, because if you held a bond, suddenly the bond was worth much less money than it was before.
~Ron Chernow

We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.
~Nikolai Gogol

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In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known – that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.
~Norman O Brown

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It is right and necessary that all should have work to do which shall be worth doing and be of itself pleasant to do, and which should be done under such conditions as would make it neither over-wearisome nor over-anxious.
~William Morris

We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us.
~Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Do we talk about the dignity of work? Do we give our students any reason for believing it is worthwhile to sacrifice for their work because such sacrifices improve the psychological and mental health of the person who makes them?
~Sargent Shriver

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The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it’s like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.
~Steve Jobs

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The Super Bowl isn’t for kids, I had a great time though and it was worth every nickel of it because by doing this lame piece about the game I can put it on my expense account.
~Andy Rooney

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A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.
~Fyodor Dostoevsky

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What’s worth doing is worth doing for money.
~Stanley Weiser

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When the value of the company clearly has fallen below what its assets are worth, having a shareholder who says, ‘Let’s get a better board’ can be helpful.
~Ben Horowitz

Meetings are the linchpin of everything. If someone says you have an hour to investigate a company, I wouldn’t look at the balance sheet. I’d watch their executive team in a meeting for an hour. If they are clear and focused and have the board on the edge of their seats, I’d say this is a good company worth investing in.
~Patrick Lencioni

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I have to be fully committed to do a project nowadays, because if I say yes to something, it means the whole family are going to have to move for the job. It’s a lot of upheaval. So, it has to be really worth it. Otherwise, I’d just as well not bother.
~Aaron Taylor-Johnson

To kill yourself for earning a salary is not worth it.
~Nargis Fakhri

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True economy means the wisest expenditure of what we have, everything considered, looking at it from the broadest standpoint. It is not a good thing to save a nickel at the expenditure of twenty-five cents’ worth of time.
~Orison Swett Marden

The obvious rule of efficiency is you don’t want to spend more time organizing than it’s worth.
~Daniel Levitin

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Bitcoin is like anything else: it’s worth what people are willing to pay for it.
~Stanley Druckenmiller

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As a general thing, I have not ‘duped the world’ nor attempted to do so… I have generally given people the worth of their money twice told.
~P T Barnum

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A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.
~Ayn Rand

Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals.
~Paul J Meyer

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Superhuman effort isn’t worth a damn unless it achieves results.
~Ernest Shackleton

In fact, the confidence of the people is worth more than money.
~Carter G Woodson

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In the old days, people used to risk their lives in India or in the Americas in order to bring back products which now seem to us to have been of comically little worth.
~Levi Strauss

I believe that there are many herbs and many trees that are worth much in Europe for dyes and for medicines; but I do not know, and this causes me great sorrow. Arriving at this cape, I found the smell of the trees and flowers so delicious that it seemed the pleasantest thing in the world.
~Christopher Columbus

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From my very first day as an entrepreneur, I’ve felt the only mission worth pursuing in business is to make people’s lives better.
~Richard Branson

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
~Albert Einstein

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A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change. So it’s a matter of fitting your current practices to fit the event and the individual. See, what’s good for you might not be worth a darn for the next guy.
~Bill Bowerman

Two kinds of ballplayers aren’t worth a darn: One that never does what he’s told, and one who does nothin’ except what he’s told.
~Bum Phillips

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I would drive home and see people wearing my No. 34 jersey and wonder why, because I didn’t feel worthy of that.
~Ricky Williams

As a player, you don’t put a price tag on your own head. You can’t go around thinking, ‘I’m worth that much.’
~Kyle Walker

I respect the Hall of Fame, and if they think that I’m worthy enough, I would be very honored. And if they don’t, I gave it all that I had to this game.
~Rafael Palmeiro

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.
~Red Auerbach

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
~Mahatma Gandhi

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It takes tremendous will to compete in any athletic endeavor, so it meant going to bed early and getting my homework done in advance. I had to sacrifice things, like a social life, to be a skater at 15. But I loved skating so much that it was worth everything to me.
~Vera Wang

Legs and athleticism are worth nothing without mental toughness. You also need to be stubborn.
~Gonzalo Higuain

Commitment is a big part of what I am and what I believe. How committed are you to winning? How committed are you to being a good friend? To being trustworthy? To being successful? …There’s that moment every morning when you look in the mirror: Are you committed, or are you not?
~LeBron James

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You may get skinned knees and elbows, but it’s worth it if you score a spectacular goal.
~Mia Hamm

The next time I cry about golf it will only be with joy. It’s not worth crying over golf for any other reason. After all, it’s only a game.
~Rory McIlroy

If life doesn’t offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one.
~Anthony J D’Angelo

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Gamers always believe that an epic win is possible and that it’s always worth trying, and trying now. Gamers don’t sit around.
~Jane McGonigal

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.
~Babe Ruth

Nothing that comes easy is worth a dime.
~Woody Hayes

A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore.
~Yogi Berra

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§ VIDEO:

I wanted to play Dracula because I wanted to say: ‘I’ve crossed oceans of time to find you.’ It was worth playing the role just to say that line.
~Gary Oldman

As an actor, I enjoy variety. That’s a big thing for me. So, if I’m going to put my name to something and commit to something that’s going to take up a lot of my time, it has to be something that I know is going to be enjoyable and worth my while. Otherwise, what’s the point?
~Tom Ellis

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Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.
~Samuel Johnson

If a film can’t excite me and teach me something about life, then it is not worth pursuing.
~Vetrimaaran

It all starts with the script: it’s not worth taking myself away from my family if I don’t have something I’m really passionate about.
~Steven Spielberg

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Sometimes when we weep in the movies we weep for ourselves or for a life unlived. Or we even go to the movies because we want to resist the emotion that’s there in front of us. I think there is always a catharsis that I look for and that makes the movie experience worthwhile.
~Edward Zwick

If you’re lucky enough to be involved in a film that’s about something very real and that you hope will continue to hold up in 20 years’ time it just gives you more energy and makes it feel all the more worthwhile.
~Eric Bana

I don’t really care where movies come from as long as they’re worth making.
~Javier Bardem

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When the first big paycheque with ‘Dumb And Dumber‘ hit, I went: ‘Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?’ But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe.
~Jim Carrey

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The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.
~Mark Twain

All the criticism and all of the praise, it doesn’t – it’s not worth the salt that goes on my bread, because TV is fickle. You can be loved one day and hated the next day. One day, you’re getting an award. And the next day, you’re getting a death threat.
~Nancy Friday

The trick of making movies in this culture is how to not give up everything that makes them worthwhile in order to get them made – and that’s a tricky balance.
~Alex Winter

The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
~Gore Vidal

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
~Alfred Hitchcock

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I want everything we do to be beautiful. I don’t give a damn whether the client understands that that’s worth anything, or that the client thinks it’s worth anything, or whether it is worth anything. It’s worth it to me. It’s the way I want to live my life.
~Saul Bass

Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else’s dreams?
~Tim Burton

When you awaken some morning and hear that somebody or other has been discovered, you can put it down as a fact that he discovered himself years ago – since that time he has been toiling, working, and striving to make himself worthy of general discovery.
~James Whitcomb Riley

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Was there ever a nation on God’s fair earth civilized from the bottom upward? Never; it is, ever was, and ever will be from the top downward that culture filters. The Talented Tenth rises and pulls all that are worth the saving up to their vantage ground.
~W E B Du Bois

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I am a perfectionist but I know how to live life. When I’m working, it’s 100%. When I’m with my friends, I put everything away and enjoy life. When I come home to my kids, it’s pure joy and everything’s worth it. Every time, I really focus 100 percent on one thing. I’ve learned how to juggle my life and I feel like now I have the perfect balance.
~Monique Lhuillier

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I’m not sure the Great Ideas come to us when we’re looking for them. Most likely they come when we don’t expect them, like hiccups and hives. But it is worth trying.
~Jack Smith

Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
~Edward de Bono

Without the element of enjoyment, it is not worth trying to excel at anything.
~Magnus Carlsen

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~Omeleto: Library of God (11:34) Guinness, Google, & the Book of Life

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Omeleto: Bound (13:28) meet-cute worth a view

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We’re going to shoot one Polaroid per show. I’m going to sign this before it even develops because I know that once it develops with my signature on it, it’s worth a fortune. I’ll make this a work of magic warlock art.
~Charlie Sheen

Life deprived of beauty is not worthy of being called human.
~Luis Barragan

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I found myself getting more publicly shy when the gala events and big crowds started. Some people embrace it. To me, it’s not worth enough to risk my private life being public.
~Matt Damon

I have a life that I enjoy; I try and value the things that I think are worth valuing and everything else is icing. You know, it is a kick to go down the red carpet in that dress and then you go back home.
~Jewel

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I’ve stood around bogs wearing half a million dollars’ worth of jewelry, up to my knees in the rot, thinking how much more or less the place smelled like a sewer than it did the day before.
~Scarlett Johansson

I’ve had grand pianos that are more expensive than, like, a year’s worth of rent.
~Lady Gaga

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I can’t imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it.
~Edgar Winter

We’re charging what we’re worth and we don’t think we’re worth $22.50. We take a lower cut than Pearl Jam.
~Tre Cool

I’m potentially worth a lot of money, but I’ve got to go and make something that’s worth a lot of money.
~Daniel Craig

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Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.
~Vivienne Westwood

Colour is what gives jewels their worth. They light up and enhance the face. Nothing is more elegant than a black skirt and sweater worn with a sparkling multi-stoned necklace.
~Christian Dior

If a great outfit gets you one step closer to feeling good about yourself, then it’s worth every penny.
~Rachel Roy

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We know that without food we would die. Without fellowship, life is not worth living.
~Laurie Colwin

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A poet could write volumes about diners, because they’re so beautiful. They’re brightly lit, with chrome and booths and Naugahyde and great waitresses. Now, it might not be so great in the health department, but I think diner food is really worth experiencing periodically.
~David Lynch

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.
~A J Liebling

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If this is the way nature punishes us for the consumption of indigestible food, I am sure it is worth while to be strictly temperate; I will therefore, in future, avoid soup and fish, and confine myself to one dish. I must not only attend to quantity, but quality. I may not be able to do this, — then I must die or be ill; but I am sure it is the best wisdom to do it.
~Martin H Fischer

All it takes is one drink to mess with the way you drive – it clouds your judgment and slows your reflexes. Don’t take any chances. It just isn’t worth it.
~Paris Hilton

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No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it’s the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.
~Moliere

It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living.
~Richard Le Gallienne

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I wish I had thrown out the bathroom scale at age 16. Weighing yourself every morning is like waking up and asking Dick Cheney to validate your sense of inner worth.
~Anne Lamott

Scales always lie. They don’t make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, about significance.
~Ann Voskamp

There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you.
~Charles Dudley Warner

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For myself, for a long time… maybe I felt inauthentic or something, I felt like my voice wasn’t worth hearing, and I think everyone’s voice is worth hearing. So if you’ve got something to say, say it from the rooftops.
~Tom Hiddleston

One Ad is worth more to a paper than forty Editorials.
~Will Rogers

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To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.
~Aeschylus

And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Any journalist worth his or her salt wouldn’t trust me.
~Joey Skaggs

I buy about $1,500 worth of papers every month. Not that I trust them. I’m looking for the crack in the fabric.
~Dick Gregory

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To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
~Aleister Crowley

It’s easy to get swept up in the day to day ridiculous things that are in the news. They’re not meaningless, they’re legitimate and worth being engaged with. But it’s easy to get overwhelmed and swept up and forget what real life feels like.
~Phil Elverum

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§ MUSIC:

Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I’m really not worth being called an artist at all.
~Lady Gaga

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I come away from a gig thinking, ‘Yeah, I’m worth something.’ I can still do it and entertain people, and that’s worth it.
~Rick Astley

As long as I’m still able to have a hit on the radio and sell a few albums and some tickets, I don’t see that it would be worth retiring.
~Alan Jackson

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Music gave me a sense that I was worthwhile and that I had something of value to offer the world even though everybody was telling me that I didn’t.
~Sarah McLachlan

When I’m dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance.
~Freddie Mercury

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Look at music for what it’s worth around the world and not just America. In other countries, people are still buying CDs and going to record stores. But in America, it’s all about digital. The game is breaking down.
~Snoop Dogg

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Whatever I do, I attempt to do it fully. I try, and don’t always succeed, to be thorough. There are musicians who do not know their worth, and if they knew it at one time, it has eluded them. I know my worth. You try not to dwell in the past.
~Bill Dixon

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If you write a hit song for Britney Spears, it’s worth several million dollars. Just one song! And it might have taken you two hours to do it. It’s like mining for gold. It takes a lot of skill and a lot of technique.
~Jewel

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There are only two things worth aiming for, good music and a clean conscience.
~Paul Hindemith

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Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.
~ George Eastman

When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.
~Edward Steichen

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I don’t think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it’s certainly worth a try.
~Steven Spielberg

The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals – its philosophers, its poets and its artists.
~Herbert Read

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The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is, can do, or is worth on an existential, alchemical level.
~Jerry Saltz

Nobody really needs a painting. It’s something you kind of create value for in a way that you don’t with a company. It’s an act of collective faith what an object is worth. Maintaining that value system is part of what a dealer does, not just making a transaction but making sure that important art feels important.
~Larry Gagosian

Kinkade’s paintings are worthless schmaltz, and the lamestream media that love him are wrong. However, I’d love to see a museum mount a small show of Kinkade’s work. I would like the art world and the wider world to argue about him in public, out in the open.
~Jerry Saltz

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When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued.
~Julia Margaret Cameron

You got to have a strong mind if you fall back. When you fall back, they going to count you out. So you got to have a strong mind and know your worth. When you come back, you’ve got to be different and even more better.
~Lil Durk

Do not waste a minute, not a second, in trying to demonstrate to others the merit of your own performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it, but you can labor steadily on to something which needs no advocate but itself.
~Thomas Wentworth Higginson

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~Colby Wright: Adeline Prado • Worth It (3:08) the good life, worth it

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~Gro Films Storytelling: Worth • Tides (6:10) surviving the vicissitudes of life

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~rundgrenfan: Todd Rundgren • An elpees worth of tunes (1:53) goofy, self-deprecating fun

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~Kris Kristofferson: The Highwaymen • Me and Bobby McGee (4:50) well-heeled, famous people singing ‒ nothing ain’t worth nothing but it’s free

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Without love, what are we worth? Eighty-nine cents! Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely.
~Laurence Marks (M*A*S*H • Hawkeye, 1973)

Feelings of loss and loneliness are inevitable when much of what makes life worth living is taken away.
~Wes Streeting

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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.
~Anna Louise Strong

When I find someone who is worth it, I’ll be nice and respect that person and put some time in.
~Ed Westwick

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.
~Sara Teasdale

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Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.
~Ambrose Bierce

When somebody has convinced you that you’re not worth anything to anybody anymore, and they spend a lot of time doing it, you start believing it yourself.
~Ric Flair

To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed,
by that false and inconsiderate notion,
That a reformed rake makes the best husband!
~Samuel Richardson

Don’t let people treat you like a cigarette, they only use you when they’re bored and step on you when they’re done. Be like drugs, let them die for you.
~Philip Seymour Hoffman

The men who are available are just not worth it.
~Neelam Kothari

All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
~Percy Bysshe Shelley

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A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.
~Pearl Bailey

You know why divorces are so expensive? They’re worth it.
~Willie Nelson

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Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.
~Bob Marley

I’m not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.
~Paulo Coelho

If it doesn’t work out
there will never be any doubt
that the pleasure was worth all the pain.
~Jimmy Buffett

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My mom is such a strong, independent, strong-willed woman, and she always taught me to accept my worth for how I viewed myself and female empowerment, and it’s okay to be independent and also need someone at the same time. I kinda get to be both.
~Lily Collins

There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio.
What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made?
What is worth living for and what is worth dying for?
The answer to each is the same. Only love.
~Lord Byron

What’s in a word, where’s the worth? If I banish loneliness and satisfy the human needs in you, is that not love? To say I need you, is that not saying I love you?
~author unknown

People are going to come into your life that need you, and being there for them makes the day worth living. People are going to come into your life that you need, and that’s the really crazy thing.
~Amy Grant

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‘I’ll buy a million dollars’ worth of love.’ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.
~Warren Buffett

Money is worth nothing if it can’t buy you the opportunity to love more.
~Oprah Winfrey

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You gotta learn that if you don’t get it by midnight, chances are you ain’t gonna get it, and if you do, it ain’t worth it.
~Casey Stengel

Not everything worth doing is worth doing well.
~Holly Richardson

Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
~Mae West

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If one less kid can grow up without hiding who they are along the way or having to believe that who they love is something that will make them lonely, then everything I went through will be worth it.
~Calum Scott

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.
~R D Laing

In the absence of love, there is nothing worth fighting for.
~Elijah Wood

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A faithful woman can become a devoted daughter of God ‒ more concerned with being righteous than with being selfish, more anxious to exercise compassion than to exercise dominion, more committed to integrity than to notoriety. And she knows of her own infinite worth.
~Russell M Nelson

But if our sex would but well consider and rationally ponder, they will perceive and find that it is neither words nor place that can advance them, but worth and merit.
~Margaret Cavendish

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Women rule the world. It’s not really worth fighting because they know what they’re doing. Ask Napoleon. Ask Adam. Ask Richard Burton or Richie Sambora. Many a man has crumbled.
~Jon Bon Jovi

Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman’s attention.
~Camille Paglia

The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood.
~Mary McLeod Bethune

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A woman’s two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.
~Loretta Lynn

Every four weeks I go up a bra size… it’s worth being pregnant just for the breasts.
~Natasha Hamilton

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.
~Voltaire

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My mum always told me I was precious, while my dad always told me I was worthless. I think that’s a good grounding for a balanced life.
~Alan Cumming

The Kennedys were very organized. Dinner was always served at 7:15, and if you were a minute late, it really wasn’t worth it. In my family, you never knew when dinner was going to be. It could be at 7, or it could be at 10.
~Ethel Kennedy

Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible – the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
~Virginia Satir

Success, and even life itself, wouldn’t be worth anything if I didn’t have my wife and children by my side. They mean everything to me.
~Jude Law

When I was younger it was – you know, my dad dressed up in drag on ‘Bosom Buddies.’ And that was what I was having to deal with at the time. And then around the time that I was into college was when he became statue-worthy I guess you could say.
~Colin Hanks

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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
~Zora Neale Hurston

Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.
~Democritus

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.
~Francesco Guicciardini

Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
~Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.
~Homer

If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends.
~Mary Browne

A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
~Charles Darwin

Not everything worth keeping has to be useful.
~Cynthia Lord

I ask of life only that which makes it worth living: the love of friends.
~Justin Regier

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No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth.
~Robert Southey

Talk to me as to your best dog, and you have the worth of me as your friend.
~author unknown

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
~George Herbert

That’s all small talk is ‒ a quick way to connect on a human level ‒ which is why it is by no means as irrelevant as the people who are bad at it insist. In short, it’s worth making the effort.
~Lynn Coady

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Surround yourself with the right people, and realize your own worth. Honestly, there are enough bad people out there in the world ‒ you don’t need to be your own worst enemy.
~Lucy Hale

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone – but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.
~William Hazlitt

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
~Graham Greene

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
~Euripides

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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
~Ben Jonson

From quiet homes and first beginning,
out to the undiscovered ends,
there’s nothing worth the wear of winning,
but laughter and the love of friends.
~Hilaire Belloc

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A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.
~Charles Lamb

If it’s a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny.
~Steven Wright

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Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
~H L Mencken

If, after hearing my songs, just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend or, perhaps to strike a loved one, it will all have been worth the while.
~Tom Lehrer

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
~William James

A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.
~Samuel Butler

If it weren’t for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we’d still be eating frozen radio dinners.
~Johnny Carson

Sale Price — What something costs when it is priced only slightly above what it is worth; also what something is priced at the day after we bought it at a higher price.
~Richard E Turner

HOW TO GET TURTLE INTO THE SOUP
—Have amusements of turtle censored. Turtle will think life not worth living. Rush to fish market.
—Inform turtle soup is opportunity for service. Turtle will be sold on idea. Offer self.
—Turn advertisement writers loose on turtle. Turtle will read ads. Be fooled. Think soup blessed state.
—Throw pictures of soup on silver screen. Release to turtle. Turtle will be intrigued. Will leap for pan.
—Read pessimistic philosophers to turtle. Turtle will be discouraged. Think soup inevitable. Accept fate.
—Engage good comedian. Comedian will ridicule turtle. Make mock turtle soup.
~W W Scott

My husband gave me a necklace. It’s fake. I requested fake. Maybe I’m paranoid, but in this day and age, I don’t want something around my neck that’s worth more than my head.
~Rita Rudner

A verbal contract isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.
~Samuel Goldwyn

So far as I know, anything worth hearing is not usually uttered at seven o’clock in the morning; and if it is, it will generally be repeated at a more reasonable hour for a larger and more wakeful audience.
~Moss Hart

You can’t do anything to be funny. That’s cringeworthy. If your humor comes out of a place of love every time, you don’t make the joke bigger than you. The funniest comedians are in touch with their emotional level.
~John Krasinski

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There is nothing ‒ absolutely nothing ‒ half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.
~Kenneth Grahame

If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn’t worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it’s life or death.
~Morgan Freeman

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Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.
~Amelia Earhart

Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.
~ Rene Descartes

Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
~Alan Kay

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The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
~Bertrand Russell

Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.
~Albert Camus

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Just taking risks for risk’s sake, that doesn’t do it for me. I’m willing to take risks that I think are worth it, and I’ve worked so hard to make sure that I survive.
Chris Hadfield (Canadian astronaut)

If we die, we want people to accept it. We’re in a risky business, and we hope that if anything happens to us, it will not delay the program. The conquest of space is worth the risk of life.
~Gus Grissom (died, Apollo 1 launch pad fire)

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I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn’t one I’ll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it’s worth it.
~Elizabeth Wurtzel

Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over; but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one’s lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning; and life at that price is not worth living.
~Gilbert Parker

What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.
~Zane Grey

We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time’s carcass.
~Karl Marx

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

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It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.
~Emil Cioran

If you think somebody cares about you and believes your life is worth saving, how can you give up?
~Geraldine Ferraro

Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song.
~Gloria Naylor

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There are times you can’t really see or even feel how sweet life can be. Hopefully its mountains will be higher than its valleys are deep. I know things that are broken can be fixed. Take the punch if you have to, hit the canvas and then get up again. Life is worth it.
~Queen Latifah

That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.
~Steve Jobs

You can hit the lowest low and face the darkest dark, but you can always get back up and get in the light. All of this is what actually makes life worth living.
~Kerli

So here’s to all the little things,
the done-and-then-forgotten things,
those “Oh-it’s-simply-nothing” things,
that make life worth the fight.
~Grace Haines

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There’s nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn’t abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
~H G Wells

As a parent, it’s my responsibility to equip my child to do this ‒ to grieve when grief is necessary and to realize that life is still profoundly beautiful and worth living despite the fact that we inevitably lose one another and that life ends, and we don’t know what happens after death.
~Sam Harris

It is up to us to live up to the legacy that was left for us, and to leave a legacy that is worthy of our children and of future generations.
~Christine Gregoire

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Pearl’s World
© David Lorenz Winston

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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.
~Walter Scott

Each moment of a happy lover’s hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
~Aphra Behn

To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can.
~Sydney Smith

If it is not scary, it is not worth doing.
~Rhys Ifans

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A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
~E W Howe

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
~James Russell Lowell

A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr

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Anything worth doing is worth overdoing. Moderation is for cowards
~Marcus Luttrell

When a thing is not worth overdoing, leave it alone!
~Henry S Haskins

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I’ve learned that anything in life worth having comes from patience and hard work.
~Greg Behrendt

A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.
~Dutch proverb

Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
~Thomas Huxley

Patience is better than wisdom: an ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains. All men praise patience, but few enough can practise it; it is a medicine which is good for all diseases, and therefore every old woman recommends it; but it is not every garden that grows the herbs to make it with.
~Charles H Spurgeon

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.
~Mahatma Gandhi

Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.
~Ambrose Bierce

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A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures.
~Ben Shneiderman

A picture is worth a thousand words but it takes 3,000 times the disk space.
~author unknown

A picture’s worth a thousand words? A library card’s worth millions.
~Roy Blount, Jr

One picture is worth 1,000 denials.
~Ronald Reagan

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An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
~Rudyard Kipling

An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.
~Michael Korda

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
~James A Garfield

An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
~Mae West

An acre of performance is worth the whole Land of promise…
~James Howell

A pint of effort is worth a gallon of excuses.
~William Arthur Ward

An inch of cooperation is worth a yard of complaints.
~William Arthur Ward

An ounce of example is worth a pound of advice.
~William Arthur Ward

A nickel’s worth of goulash beats a five dollar can of vitamines.
~Martin H Fischer

If wisdom and diamonds grew on the same tree we could soon tell how much men loved wisdom.
~Lemuel K Washburn (Is the Bible Worth Reading and Other Essays)

To be worthy does not mean to be perfect.
~Gerrit W Gong

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Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
~Erich Fromm

He who can drink from the wayside stream need seldom go thirsty, and he who can find joy in the little things of life need never be without interest or worthy occupation or opportunities for service..
~Ernest J Bowden

True happiness… is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
~Helen Keller

It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.
~Philip Sidney

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You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.
~Tracy Kidder

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
~Immanuel Kant

I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God.
~John Shelby Spong

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No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
~Ovid

To gain what is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.
~Bernadette Devlin

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Nothing ain’t worth nothing but it’s free.
~Kris Kristofferson

Little pieces of advice like that can provide us with months’ worth of entertainment.
~Mike Shinoda

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To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
~Harriet Beecher Stowe

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
~Carl Jung

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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
~Khalil Gibran

One rare and exceptional deed is worth far more than a thousand commonplace ones.
~Saint Ignatius

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Kind words, a smile, a bit of encouragement or inspiration may seem but little things, of no account to many of us, yet they may be worth everything to some lonely or discouraged soul famishing for sympathy and encouragement.
~Orison Swett Marden

How slight a nod it would take, how bare a smile, to give everyone you meet today a sense of worth.
~Robert Brault

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.
~John Ruskin

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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
~Graham Greene

Unfortunately, as much as I am gullible, I also hate lying. I tend to tell the truth a lot… lying just isn’t worth it. But I think I’m guilty of telling people that I’m 5 minutes away when really I’m about 45 or an hour away.
~Monica Raymund

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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, “This is a misfortune” but “To bear this worthily is good fortune.”
~Marcus Aurelius

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I was no chief and never had been, but because I had been more deeply wronged than others, this honor was conferred upon me, and I resolved to prove worthy of the trust.
~Geronimo

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I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions – adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr

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Putting yourself out there is hard, but it’s so worth it. I don’t think anyone who has ever spoken out, or stood up or had a brave moment, has regretted it. It’s empowering and confidence-building and inspiring. Not only to other people, but to yourself.
~Megan Rapinoe

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I believe you have a responsibility to comport yourself in a manner that gives an example to others. As a young man, I prayed for success. Now I pray just to be worthy of it.
~Brendan Fraser

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Sin and forgiveness and falling and getting back up and losing the pearl of great price in the couch cushions but then finding it again, and again, and again? Those are the stumbling steps to becoming Real, the only script that’s really worth following in this world or the one that’s coming.
~Brennan Manning

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Nothing is worth more than this day.
~Goethe

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@Writers Platform

I can see the sun rise over the ocean, and watch it set over the bay… It seems as if almost nothing else were worth while, and I recall snatches of Homer’s and Virgil’s rhymes of the deep…
~Laura L Livingstone

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Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.
~Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn’t worth the time and effort.
~Henry Rollins

If literature isn’t everything, it’s not worth a single hour of someone’s trouble.
~Jean-Paul Sartre

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.
~Ross Perot

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
~Benjamin Franklin

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Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
~Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
~Gilbert K Chesterton

Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well.
~Steve Brown

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Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom; unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel.
~Jane Porter

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Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn’t worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.
~Ezra Pound

Words may be imagined as the wrapping that poets mold around invisible thought. Words expressly chosen and the technique of their arrangement will set their worth. The more precisely trimmed, tightly fitted, colored, and perfectly folded they are, the more a reader will see of it. This separates out the poet from the pedantic and poetaster.
~author unknown

Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.
~Roland Barthes

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A well-aimed spear is worth three.
~Tad Williams

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It’s easier for an audience to take warnings from sci-fi without feeling that we’re preaching to them. Every science fiction movie I have ever seen, any one that’s worth its weight in celluloid, warns us about things that ultimately come true.
~Steven Spielberg

The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.
~Henry James

The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.
~Patrick Henry

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Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
~Antonin Artaud

Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
~Moliere

If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you’ve created a world without conflict, in which everything is perfect. And if there’s no conflict, there are no stories worth telling ‒ or reading!
~Veronica Roth

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That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact.
~Walter Pater

Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don’t call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing.
~William Collins

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If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.
~C S Lewis

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o’ the flatterer.
~William Shakespeare

Most people know no other way of judging men’s worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.
~Francois de La Rochefoucauld

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
~William Ellery Channing

I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don’t have a lot of sympathy for because I’m just going to be with them too long.
~Richard Russo

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I just constantly tell myself that I should be the only one to define my worth and what I’m capable of and how I perceive myself. And that I should never source that worth from other people, especially strangers on social media. They don’t know who I am, the length of my journey, who I am as a person.
~Catriona Gray

I will just generalise it that anything that I find too disgusting is not worth an answer.
~Yami Gautam

The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one’s self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.
~Michelangelo

Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.
~Aesop

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A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be.
~Mark Strand

The difference between people who believe they have books inside of them and those who actually write books is sheer cussed persistence – the ability to make yourself work at your craft, every day – the belief, even in the face of obstacles, that you’ve got something worth saying.
~Jennifer Weiner

Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You’ll have that readership. Keep going until you know you’re doing work that’s worthy. And then see what happens. That’s my advice.
~Philip Levine

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With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure.
~Art Spiegelman

A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.
~Joseph Addison

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And, I mean, I think poetry does need to be met to some extent… and for me, it’s just been so worth the effort. It’s like I’m planting a garden in my head.
~Jane Campion

The sound of water is worth more than all the poets’ words.
~Octavio Paz

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Prewritten Prompt: worth

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A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
~Simone Weil

Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.
~Jacques Maritain

If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.
~E W Howe

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Nothing happens in the mind that doesn’t happen in the body. They are one… Our spiritual intent realigns our misaligned emotional body.
~Max Strom (A Life Worth Breathing: A Yoga Master’s Handbook)

The only theism worthy of our respect believes in God not because of the way the world is made but in spite of that. The only theism that is no less profound than the Buddha’s atheism is that represented in the Bible by Job and Jeremiah.
~Walter Kaufmann

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Do not fear lest you should meditate too much upon Him and speak of Him in an unworthy way, providing you are led by faith. Do not fear lest you should entertain false opinions of Him so long as they are in conformity with the notion of the infinitely perfect Being.
~Nicolas Malebranche

And there never was an apple, in Adam’s opinion, that wasn’t worth the trouble you got into for eating it.
~Neil Gaiman

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If there is one tree that man needs to eat of, it is the forbidden tree of the knowledge of good and evil; and if any knowledge will keep him alive and make him happy and perfect, it is just this knowledge which God forbid him to acquire. We are dying to-day from ignorance, not from knowledge…
~Lemuel K Washburn (Is the Bible Worth Reading and Other Essays)

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
~Galileo Galilei

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With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.
~Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Your faithfulness makes you trustworthy to God.
~Edwin Louis Cole

The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.
~John Lancaster Spalding

It’s faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr

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Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
~Plato

I’d realize it’s not worth our time to worry. You do your best, and God will put the right people in your path.
~Taya Kyle

For only the serene soul is strong. Every moment of worry weakens the soul for its daily combat. Worry is an infirmity; there is no virtue in it. Worry is spiritual near-sightedness; a fumbling way of looking at little things, and of magnifying their value. True spiritual vision sweeps the universe and sees things in their right proportion.
~Anna Robertson Brown (What Is Worth While?)

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But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.
~Hans Urs von Balthasar

Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world, and lost your soul. Was it worth it?
~Billy Graham

You have options. In a worthy justice there’s no need for judgment. That you experience all the consequences of the life you chose is your worthy justice. I think there’s a dungeon.
~author unknown

In theater or movies you see either ‘I’m religious’ or ‘I’m an atheist.’ I’ve never seen too much discussion of ‘I believe there’s a higher power but I’m hesitant to reach out to him because I don’t know if I’m worthy of his attention.’
~Zach Braff

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Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon when we shall justify ourselves worthy of a glorious past.
~Muhammad Ali Jinnah

With respect to Holy Communion, it is up to the communicant to decide whether they are in a state of grace and worthy to receive the Eucharist. Each one of us makes that decision.
~Roger Mahony

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The die is set and Malcolm will not escape for the foolish talk he spoke against his benefactor, such a man, is worthy of death, and it would have been so, were it not for Muhammad’s confidence that God would give him the victory over the enemies.
~Louis Farrakhan

He that loses his conscience has nothing left that is worth keeping.
~Izaak Walton

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In the time of the sacred sites and the crashing of ecosystems and worlds, it may be worth not making a commodity out of all that is revered.
~Winona LaDuke

Aquinas is worth reading. He has stood the test of time. And even where he errs, you can learn more from the errors of a great mind than you can learn from the truths of a small mind. You can see a whole lot farther standing on the shoulders of giants.
~Norman Geisler

It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man.
~Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

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There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation ‒ veneer isn’t worth anything.
~George Washington Carver

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
~Beverly Sills

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The unexamined life is not worth living.
~Socrates

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
~Theodore Roosevelt

An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free will, of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason.
~Jon Meacham

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Every religious tradition is rooted in mysteries I don’t pretend to understand, including claims about what happens after we die. But this I know for sure: as long as we’re alive, choosing resurrection is always worth the risk.
~Parker Palmer

What we need in Europe is to push back against the idea that religion is so farfetched that it’s not worth talking about.
~Francis Spufford

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What we do know absolutely is that human lives are worth more than grapes and that innocent-looking grapes on the table may disguise poisonous residues hidden deep inside where washing cannot reach.
~Cesar Chavez

In the sick room, ten cents’ worth of human understanding equals ten dollars’ worth of medical science.
~Martin H Fischer

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.
~George Bernard Shaw

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What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
~William Blake

If I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.
~Richard P Feynman

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
~Galileo Galilei

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It is not enough to know your craft – you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.
~Edouard Manet

The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about.
~Clifford Geertz

Mathematics has beauty and romance. It’s not a boring place to be, the mathematical world. It’s an extraordinary place; it’s worth spending time there.
~Marcus du Sautoy

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An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem.
~John Tukey

A man’s interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.
~Henry David Thoreau

I don’t pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.
~Arthur C Clarke

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Thousands of years ago, humans domesticated every possible large wild mammal species fulfilling all those criteria and worth domesticating, with the result that there have been no valuable additions of domestic animals in recent times, despite the efforts of modern science.
~Jared Diamond

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The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it’s like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.
~Steve Jobs

Stay the patient course
Of little worth is your ire
The network is down
~David Ansel

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I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
~Margaret Mead

The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.
~Claude Bernard

Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one.
~Krzysztof Kieslowski

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New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can’t be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!
~Arthur C Clarke

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
~Louis D Brandeis

There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different.
~Alfred P Sloan

Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
~Aristophanes

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Map out your future ‒ but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip.
~Jon Bon Jovi

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It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.
~David Attenborough

It has been said that in human life there are moments worth ages… in the climate of England there are, for the lover of Nature, days which are worth whole months, — I might say — even years.
~William Wordsworth

If we tarry a little while, we shall behold a sunset on the ocean,—a sight worth traversing a kingdom to see… The colours have changed as if by the moving of a fairy wand—a happy union of fire and its great antagonist.
~Henry James Slack

Though inland far we be,
Our souls have sight of that immortal sea
Which brought us hither…
~William Wordsworth

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If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living.
~Henri Poincare

The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
~Wendell Berry

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Students, keep your eye still fixed upon the day, work honestly for it, it is worth striving for. There is gold of wisdom ahead of you to be had for the digging, there are flowers of delight which may be yours for the plucking; and whether you find the gold or gather the flowers depends upon you.
~Louise E Hollister

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Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.
~Bertrand Russell

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
~Oscar Wilde

The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves.
~Satyajit Ray

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
~Walter Scott

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.
~Harry S Truman

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Anything that is worth teaching can be presented in many different ways. These multiple ways can make use of our multiple intelligences.
~Howard Gardner

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It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy’s mind from effort.
~Quintilian

I am sure it is one’s duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one’s own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.
~A C Benson

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.
~Elizabeth Hardwick

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Education… has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
~G M Trevelyan

Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers.
~Aldo Leopold

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.
~Thomas Jefferson

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Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years’ worth of education.
~Julian Bond

If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.
~Carter G Woodson

I just kept telling myself that ultimately, the money that my grandparents had put away to go into my college fund, that they were investing for me to go to school and get this education, it had to be worth something.
~G-Eazy

Seems like God don’t see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams – but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile.
~Lorraine Hansberry

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Education is worth its weight in gold. Make no mistake about it.
~Clyde Drexler

You have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Because that’s the one thing people can’t take away from you is your education. And it is worth the investment.
~Michelle Obama

The tassel’s worth the hassle!
~author unknown

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As a kid from Compton, you can get all the success in the world and still question your worth.
~Kendrick Lamar

A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi… has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It’s not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for.
~Thurgood Marshall

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§ The Exercise:

trackless ditties

tech can pry
enter premises
fool eyes with lies
renege on promises

broken records
falling steeples
inquiry boards
fallen people

doubt that machines feel
to hear one scream will
scratch the vinyl
with diamond needle

what holds us whole
molds us holy
defines the soul
our worth solely

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tic toking @heaven’s door

loose-fitted door in its doorway
with light leaking out
around it
a halo only
surrounds it ‒
the hidden image

sacred naked
unadorned
vision’s rapture
divine torture
closed to the eye ‒
beauty at her bath

if dreams had futures
lush perfection
worth adoration
nature sanctified
authentic Deity Design ‒
defeated by a door

the waste of beauty
crime as victim
returned to God
gift unopened
and grieve the loss ‒
an altogether shame

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assessment #23

artists working fields unsure of their worth
captains of commerce feathering their wealth
talented seeds do scatter the earth
genius in guise, flowers and thorns
such are the cards history has dealt

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economy & country

birth of a nation
worth its creation
destiny manifest
world bleeding it’s best
to feed this child
born of the wilds

strivers need challenge
genius, its freedom
talent, expression
love, its variety
as greed craves its lucre
as the helpless want hope

need for new seed
magnet to irony
buyers knock at the door
empty shelves in the store

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whim of weather

birds and leaves
blue skies, oh my
but a calendar tease
the ‘why’ we cry

few hours of sun
more weeks of rain
kills the fun
invites the pain

hammer of summer
from winter to woe
mosquitoes a bummer
warming fires turned foe

summer’s a season
has purpose and reason
each in its place
the year’s not a race

but here’s the thing
baffled, left grappling
what the deuce happened
to the promise of spring

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shackles

thoughts are confining
to wild unstabled reality
words as nails for defining
pinning hides to the wall
adages to nature’s poetry

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Gravestone Etching

Took the fall for me
Gave it all for free
No, not that story
But the worth of a friend

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5s ‘n 7s

roast on spits of comedy
rude hot worthy ridicule
binged on sweets, lies of liars
politicians’ need to serve
troubadours who sing of love

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conflict detection
unearth the fictions
country’s dissection
not worth the frictions
legal defections
provoked assassins
change of direction

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feel, smell smoke’s texture
sacred ritual
able to alter
worthy of lighting
new sense its incense
red burns the altar
tamed fire to rescue

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ash, soot and cinder
pol’s reputation
worth validation
poll situation
national splinter
prick under the skin
fire’s phoenix recast

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large storms earn a brand
big boys in the band
breezes plead, us please
play-tickle-sport-tease
we are worth more, these
names we understand
breathed gentle Louise

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worth a suggestion
just consider digestion
when swallowing lies
historic, poisonous tries
hemlock, arsenic and lye

~

lengthening shadows
tractor threads the green distance
bass line thrum of life
backup drone to the birdsong
chorus full worthy of life

~

mountain vale setting
red barns, fields, faithful fences
worthy of sunsets

~

stumbled into love
hiking hillbilly mountain
yup, werth ‘t fer shur

~

no reversal there
but a worthy fail instead
trade industry said

~

weird truth about trees
who won’t budge, lie about age
worth their weight in wood

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dark flying ravens
worthies of the blacker night
dream weaving pilots

~

too bored, then dared to
test the worthiness of life
signed out having lived

for Dal, and others

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The Olio and Salmagundi of Quotes

A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.
~Jean Rostand

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.
~Jean Rostand

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The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
~Annie Dillard

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.
~Pierre Corneille

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Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
~Abraham Lincoln

Don’t work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition.
~H Jackson Brown, Jr

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A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.
~Eugene Ionesco

Muscles. We’re talking about muscles? They’re like pets, basically, and they’re not worth it. They’re just not worth it. You have to feed them all the time and take care of them, and if you don’t, they just go away. They run away.
~Ryan Gosling

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By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.
~Don Marquis

A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.
~Louis Nizer

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I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.
~Margaret Fuller (pioneering feminist)

I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
~Ezra Pound

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A hare in the hand is worth two in the bush.
~author unknown

A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.
~William Hazlitt

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Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
~Henry Ward Beecher

An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
~Thomas Fuller

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Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
~Benjamin Franklin

Good habits are worth being fanatical about.
~John Irving

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I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much and too often. As for money, I have only realized its true worth when I didn’t have it.
~Hedy Lamarr

Most of us really aren’t horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us. Put ’em all in one room and very few would stand out as individuals. So maybe we ought to think of worth in terms of our ability to get along as a part of nature, rather than being the lords over nature.
~Herbert Simon

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Every time I start to get worked up over something, I just think to myself, ‘Is this really going to matter in my life tomorrow, in an hour, in a year?’ You just can’t get stressed about the little things ’cause it’s just not worth it at the end of the day.
~Kylie Jenner

No temporary chaos is worth your sanity. Just knowing that whatever happens, it happens to the best of them too
~Nas

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You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.
~Gustave Flaubert

It’s not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren’t doing.
~Terry Pratchett

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If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don’t think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions; it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps.
~Edwin Land

Every good cause is worth some inefficiency.
~Paul Samuelson

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If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it.
~Alice Walker

You usually have to wait for that which is worth waiting for.
~Craig Bruce

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Some mornings, it’s just not worth chewing through the leather straps.
~Emo Philips

If you’re not having fun it’s not worth doing.
~Tommy Bolin

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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it’s the transparency that counts.
~Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Half the joy of life is in little things taken on the run… but let us keep our hearts young and our eyes open that nothing worth our while shall escape us.
~Victor Cherbuliez

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The only success worth one’s powder was success in the line of one’s idiosyncrasy… what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?
~Henry James

Follow your passion. Nothing ‒ not wealth, success, accolades or fame ‒ is worth spending a lifetime doing things you don’t enjoy.
~Jonathan Sacks

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‘Tis easy enough to be pleasant,
When life flows along like a song;
But the man worth while
is the one who will smile
when everything goes dead wrong.
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It’s worth being bashed against. It’s worth getting scarred by. It’s worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.
~Jeff Buckley

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