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No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune. – Plutarch

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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody. – Joseph Heller, Catch-22, 1961

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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. – Emile Zola

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The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. Ecclesiastes 9:11 – Bible

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We gain no easier advantage than by relentlessly pursuing our goal while others pursue an advantage. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception. – Henri Bergson

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The past remains integral to us all, individually and collectively. We must concede the ancients their place, as I have argued. But their place is not simply back there in a separate and foreign country; it is assimilated in ourselves, and resurrected into an ever-changing present. – David Lowenthal, The Past Is a Foreign Country

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The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. Thats what poetry does. – Allen Ginsberg

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Light comes to us unexpectedly and obliquely. Perhaps it amuses the gods to try us. They want to see whether we are asleep. – H.M. Tomlinson

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