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10 Quotes

Ernest Hemingway. Photo: Chicago Tribune

That is the greatest fallacy, the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
- Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, 1929

We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Maximes (1678)

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.
- Oscar Wilde

You don't have to specialize - do everything that you love and then, at some time, the future will come together for you in some form.
- Francis Ford Coppola

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
- Soren Kierkegaard

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
- Albert Einstein

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.
- Cicero

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
- Joseph Chilton Pearce

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10 Quotes

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.. -  Charlie Chaplin Never go out to meet trouble. If you will just sit still, nine cases out of ten someone will intercept it before it reaches you. - Calvin Coolidge Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting. - John Russell An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered. - G. K. Chesterton Humankind cannot stand very much reality. - T. S. Eliot The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you. - Nancy Astor Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world. - Arthur Schopenhauer In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. - George Orwell It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. - Franklin D. Roosevelt Life is like playi...
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