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Quote by Arnold Bennett
To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight whi

To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists. – Arnold Bennett

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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life. – Arnold Bennett

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Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. – Arnold Bennett

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Goals
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Journalists say a thing that they know isnt true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true. – Arnold Bennett

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The course of the flight up and down was exceedingly erratic, partly due to the irregularity of the air, and partly to lack of experience in handling this machine. The control of the front rudder was difficult on account of its being balanced too near the center. – Orville Wright

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We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our schoolmasters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us. – Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu

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All experience is subjective. – Gregory Bateson

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The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience. – Chinua Achebe

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Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty. – George Eliot

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Ive never taken any issue off the table for lack of suitability. Only for lack of imagination. – Garry Trudeau

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