"His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine."
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"Inspiration can be found in a pile of junk. Sometimes, you can put it together with a good imagination and invent something."
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"Invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration."
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"For me, songwriting is something that I have to do ritually. I don't just wait for inspiration; I try to write a little bit every day."
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"What the thinker thinks, the prover proves."
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"One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice."
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"My God is love and sweetly suffers all."
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"Business and investing are team sports."
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"Doing the right things for the right reason in the right way is the key to Quality of Life!"
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"The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all."
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"How do I dance with the fear? Fear is not the enemy. Paralysis is the enemy."
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"Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past."
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"Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don't get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it."
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"Make an island of yourself, make yourself your refuge; there is no other refuge. Make truth your island, make truth your refuge; there is no other refuge."
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"You don't get tired of muffins, but you don't find inspiration in them."
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"Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God."
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"Oh, are you from Wales? Do you know a fella named Jonah-He used to live in whales for a while"
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"I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members."
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"I must confess, I was born at a very early age."
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"I can see you in the kitchen bending over a hot stove, and I can't see the stove"
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