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Jose Saramago Writer
Sad

“I'm not pessimistic. It is the world that is terrible. How can we be optimistic in the face of a planet where people live so badly, nature is being destroyed and the dominant empire is money?”

Jose Saramago Writer
Philosophical

“Very few people are aware that in each of our fingers, located somewhere between the firs phalange, the mesophalange and the metaphalange, there is a tiny brain... It should be noted that fingers are without brains, these develop gradually with the passage of time and with the help of what the eyes see... That is why the fingers have always excelled at uncovering what is concealed.”

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Joseph Conrad Novelist, Short Story Writer
Thoughtful

“There is, as every schoolboy knows in this scientific age, a very close chemical relation between coal and diamonds. It is the reason, I believe, why some people allude to coal as "black diamonds." Both these commodities represent wealth; but coal is a much less portable form of property.”

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Joseph Campbell Mythologist, Writer, Lecturer
Creative

“Poetry comes out of an elite experience, the experience of people whose ears are opened to the song of the universe.”

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Joseph Heller Novelist
Spiritual

“Under Colonel Korn's rule, the only people permitted to ask questions were those who never did.”

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Joseph Joubert Essayist, Moralist
Philosophical

“All disputation makes the mind deaf; and when people are deaf, I am dumb.”

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Joseph Joubert Essayist, Moralist
Wise

“There are people who are virtuous only in a piece-meal way; virtue is a fabric from which they never make themselves a whole garment.”

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Josh Prince Musician
Creative

“There's also a lot of stuff that's not really good that gets written so I say to people who are excited about writing for the first time that if you think you have it, go for it because there are people that achieve it and don't have it.”

Josh Schwartz Television Producer, Writer
Thoughtful

“It is my goal to learn as much about the people I'm surrounded by. I am slowly widening who I am close with, and at the same time, growing further away from others.”

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Josh Smith Artist
Angry

“And the cool kids always had a stop sign in their bedroom. Which means: "I don't care if people die. I want my stop sign." At least the assumption was that they took it down from somewhere and now there are old ladies hitting each other head-on somewhere.”

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Josh Smith Artist
Happy

“I'm a happy, happy person. I laugh. I'm not angry. I'm only disgusted with a few people in the world that I have to see. But I'm not angry at all.”

Josh Young Musician
Happy

“The Town Hall Pub on a Wednesday night was just regulars anyway, so we could play whatever. Worst case scenario, it would be the same seven people who were always at the bar getting drunk, and they would be there for us. But we just told our friends and family, and they came out to support us. Then they told their friends, who told their friends, who told their friends. It was a full-on event.”

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Joss Stone Singer-songwriter
Regretful

“It's sad that people listen to music and decide how the singer should look.”

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Joss Stone Singer-songwriter
Anxious

“There are people in England that claim benefits because they are too nervous to work, so they claim their benefits for anxiety and never have to go out side there free home.”

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Joss Stone Singer-songwriter
Grateful

“I really love art and I always have in every single different form and I just hope that I'm able to give some art that will touch some people and help them to be more positive and stronger.”

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Joss Stone Singer-songwriter
Confident

“If I was a person that felt success is money, and for some people it is, I won't yuck someone's yum - if that's your thing, that's your thing. Go for it. Make as much money as you can. I don't care. Not my thing. My thing is something else. So I don't miss that. At all. Who needs it? How much money do you really need?”

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