Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer - In Art
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I don't invent characters because the Almightly has already invented millions. Just like experts at fingerprints do not create fingerprints but learn how to read them.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer - In Art
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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.
- Washington Irving - In On Change
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The idea is to die young as late as possible.
- Ashley Montagu - In Mortality
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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
- George Washington - In Friendship
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Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
- George Washington - In Government
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When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
- George Washington Carver - In History
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I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.
- George Washington Carver - In Nature
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I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer - In Nature
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Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer - In Religion
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Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.
- Mary Kay Ash - In Science
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The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.
- Ashley Montagu - In Science
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Pro-rated at 500 at-bats per year, my 1,081 strike-outs would mean that for two years out of the fourteen I played, I never touched the ball.
- Norm Cash - In Sports
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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
- Booker T. Washington - In Success
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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
- Booker T. Washington - In Workplace
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