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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
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"... it is because sympathy is but a living again through our own past in a new form, that confession often prompts a response of confession."

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Frank Herbert Science Fiction Writer
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"It is not the present which unfluences the future, thou fool, but the future which forms the present. You have it all backward. Since the future is set, an unfolding of events which will assure that future is fixed and inevitable."

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"Right before I went to Pacifica, I had written and performed a one-woman show and I consider that to be my original art form. Spaulding Grey and Karen Finley and other spoken word artists and performance artists really very much interested me, that art form."

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George Washington Military Leader, Politician
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"I have always given it as my decided opinion that no nation had a right to intermeddle in the internal concerns of another; that every one had a right to form and adopt whatever government they liked best to live under themselves."

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Nina Simone Singer, Songwriter, Pianist
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"If I want to take a particular form of blues somewhere else I have the equipment to do it but I never even thought of it."

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Henry James Author
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"God's creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none."

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Henry James Author
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"That accurst autobiographic form which puts a premium on the loose, the improvised, the cheap, and the easy."

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Kevin Allen Musician
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"As I was coming up in business, screwing up was not an option in any form."

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