"It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle."

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"It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle."

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"Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed."

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"In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."

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"Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self."

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"If you have carefully examined hundred people you met in your life journey, it means that you have read hundred different books! Every person you know is a book; world is full of walking books; some are boring, some are marvellous, some are weak, some are powerful, but they are all useful because they all carry different experiences of different paths!"

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"Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books."

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"If you ask a hundred people, they all give you different answers."

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"We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people."

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"Public servants are paid to serve the American people. Do it well."

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"Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon."

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"To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations."

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"No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond."

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"Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor."

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