“A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate.”
— Christopher Hampton
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“A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.”
— Mary Kay Ash
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“A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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“The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.”
— Albert Schweitzer
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“There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.”
— Ronald Reagan
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“Hard times always lead to something great.”
— Betsey Johnson
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“And your very flesh shall be a great poem.”
— Walt Whitman
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“Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.”
— Elbert Hubbard
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“I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
— Stephen Leacock
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“Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.”
— Dag Hammarskjold
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“Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.”
— Niels Bohr
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