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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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I always introduce myself as an encyclopedia of defects which I do not deny. Why should I? It took me a whole life...
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You can't test courage cautiously.Source: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, ch. 6,...
Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.Source:...
The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly...
Surely a king who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory. More about this quote
A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half...
Breed is stronger than pasture.Source: -- George Eliot, (Nov 22 1819-1880),...
My makeup wasn't smeared, I wasn't disheveled, I behaved politely, and I never finished off a bottle, so how could I...
I know my own heart to be entirely English.Source: Speech on opening parliament,...
But he that dares not grasp the thornShould never crave the rose.Source: The...
She wanted to be the reason for everything and so she was the cause of nothing. More about this quote
People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds,...
Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us [Americans] almost like a national disease. Our literature...
The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes...
Because psychologists have been able to discover, exactly as in a slow-motion picture, the way the human creature...
Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.Source: Quoted by...
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.Source: Quoted in:...
Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by...
We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness-either enforced or...
I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from...
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