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    Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.

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Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint. - Letters to His Son, read more

Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint. - Letters to His Son, W. B. Yeats and Others.

by J. B. Yeats Found in: Perspective Quotes,
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When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.

When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.

by Walter Lippmann Found in: Perspective Quotes,
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Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope read more

Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it "creative observation." Creative viewing.

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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.

Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.

by William Cowper Found in: Perspective Quotes,
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To be what no one ever was, To be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those Extremes read more

To be what no one ever was, To be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those Extremes that fence all effort in.

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I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.

I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.

by W.n. Ewer Found in: Perspective Quotes,
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There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.

There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.

by Peter A. Cohen Found in: Perspective Quotes,
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. - Maxims.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. - Maxims.

by Napoleon Found in: Perspective Quotes,
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There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while read more

There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual.

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