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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm.Source: Fair Weather, Sunset Gun,...
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I had been fed, in my youth, a lot of old wives' tales about the way men would instantly forsake a beautiful woman to...
. . . this life is a perpetual chequer-work of good and evil, pleasure and pain. When in possession of what we desire,...
Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, may be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and...
[Being a parent] is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a...
The cello is not one of my favourite instruments. It has such a lugubrious sound, like someone reading a...
In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend...
Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good...
The invention of the teenager was a mistake. Once you identify a period of life in which people get to stay out late...
In economics, we borrowed from the Bourbons; in foreign policy, we drew on themes fashioned by the nomad warriors of...
It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the...
All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is to -- act as if it were impossible to...
Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.Source: In The Speaker's...
We hear the haunting presentiment of a dutiful middle age in the current reluctance of young people to select any...
Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence...
If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step...
The politician is the creature of the public sentiment -- never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . ....
I want my careless song to strike no minor key; no fiend to stand between my body's Southern song -- the fusion of the...
I woke at intervals until . . . the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often awake than...
He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash...
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