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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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Today there are no fairy tales for us to believe in, and this is possibly a reason for the universal prevalence of...
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You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.Source: -- Rita Mae...
Even Tom Sawyer had a girlfriend . . .Source: Defending Peyton Place, NY Mirror, 6...
Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable. 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
One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their...
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?Source: Middlemarch, bk. 5, ch. 44,...
Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty.Source: In...
Hatred is like fire; it makes even light rubbish deadly.Source: In Webster's...
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we...
But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing...
We met . . . Dr. Hall in such very deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be...
Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish...
The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.Source: Daniel Deronda, bk....
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.Source: Middlemarch, bk. 2, ch. 17...
The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied,...
A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.Source: 'Felix...
Humor comes from self-confidence. There's an aggressive element to wit.Source:...
Eternity -- waste of time.Source: Quoted in: Adam, Gods, no. 299 (London,...
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