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When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.

—Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

—Francis of Assisi

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In the long history of man, countless empires and nations have come and gone. Those which created no lasting works of art are reduced today to short footnotes in history's catalog. Art is a nation's most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves, and to others, the inner vision which guides us as a Nation. And where there is no vision, the people perish. We in America have not always been kind to the artists and the scholars who are the creators and the keepers of our vision. Somehow, the scientists always seem to get the penthouse, while the arts and the humanities get the basement.

—Lyndon B. Johnson

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Beautiful things grow out of shit. Nobody ever believes that. Everyone thinks that Beethoven had his string quartets completely in his head—they somehow appeared there and formed in his head—and all he had to do was write them down and they would be manifest to the world. But what I think is so interesting, and would really be a lesson that everybody should learn, is that things come out of nothing. Things evolve out of nothing. You know, the tiniest seed in the right situation turns into the most beautiful forest. And then the most promising seed in the wrong situation turns into nothing. I think this would be important for people to understand, because it gives people confidence in their own lives to know that's how things work. If you walk around with the idea that there are some people who are so gifted—they have these wonderful things in their head but and you're not one of them, you're just sort of a normal person, you could never do anything like that—then you live a different kind of life. You could have another kind of life where you could say, well, I know that things come from nothing very much, start from unpromising beginnings, and I'm an unpromising beginning, and I could start something.

—Brian Eno

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Nobody ever knows someone completely. You have to just enjoy what you do know and have faith in the rest.

—Erin McCarthy in Hard and Fast

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People's reaction to me is sometimes "Uch, I just don't like her. I hate how she thinks she is so great." But it's not that I think I'm so great. I just don't hate myself. I do idiotic things all the time and I say crazy stuff I regret, but I don't let everything traumatize me. And the scary thing I have noticed is that some people really feel uncomfortable around women who don't hate themselves. So that's why you need to be a little bit brave.

—Mindy Kaling in Why Not Me?

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Love doesn't let you walk away clean. Love is messy. Love takes a piece of you before it's done.

—R.K. Lilley in Lovely Trigger

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I don't get it. Why are many people drawn to someone who's hurt them? Maybe it's an ego thing—being hurt sucks, and you think you can erase that hurt by going back to the person who caused it. Then it will be like it never happened in the first place. Only problem is that it did happen.

—Allison van Diepen in The Oracle of Dating

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There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

—Peter Drucker

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I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.

—Graffito

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The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.

—William J. Broad

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I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.

—Edward Chilton

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He who is brave is free.

—Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.

—Nathaniel Hawthorne

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What I didn't know was I was deeply attracted to the big space.

—David Hockney

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