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Quote by Samuel Johnson
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance. - S

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance. – Samuel Johnson

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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money. – Samuel Johnson

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Money
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Samuel Johnson
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No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned… a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company. – Samuel Johnson

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Food
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The luster of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception is that of rest after fatigue. – Samuel Johnson

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Observation
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Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions. – E. O. Wilson

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Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting. – Edward de Bono

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Life is not an easy matter… You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness. – Leon Trotsky

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Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together. – Edmund Burke

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But with the right kind of coaching and determination you can accomplish anything and the biggest accomplishment that I feel I got from the film was overcoming that fear. – Reese Witherspoon

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Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order. – Virginia Woolf

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Poetry: the best words in the best order. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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To take a photograph is to participate in another persons mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to times relentless melt. – Susan Sontag

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