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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.Source: George Eliot's Life...
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A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.Source: 'Felix...
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us. More about this quote
An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding...
Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development. More about this quote
The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant...
Whipping and abuse are like laudanum; you have to double the dose as the sensibilities...
Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least...
Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the...
Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty.Source: In...
Prayer is the little implementThrough which men reachWhere presence - is denied...
Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to...
There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.Source:...
Detachment is the prerogative of an elite; and as the dandy is the nineteenth century's surrogate for the aristocrat...
Depression is melancholy minus its charms -- the animation, the fits.Source:...
Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we...
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or...
This city is neither a jungle nor the moon. . . . In long shot: a cosmic smudge, a conglomerate of bleeding energies....
In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar -- a practice which is still continued. More about this quote
Somebody was using the pencil.Source: On why she missed a in New Yorker, deadline;...
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