"If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven."

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"If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven."

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Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered."

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"To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Every day, I have a most embarrassing moment."

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"No charges have been filed by the L.A. district attorney's office, and for that I am appreciative. I have said it before, but we all make mistakes, and the day will come soon enough where you no longer read of mine in the tabloids."

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"Here's something pompous - you take your day and artistically create it, so every moment has an artistic flavor."

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"The question at the end of the day was, the courts having found there was no defense, a producer about to go to jail, should CBS in effect tell the producer go to jail even though there is no law at all that we can use to get you out of jail?"

Floyd Abrams, American Lawyer

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"Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth."

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"Every great inspiration is but an experiment."

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"There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life."

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"The fabric of existence weaves itself whole."

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