"Contradictions if well understood and managed can spark off the fires of invention. Orthodoxy whether of the right or of the left is the graveyard of creativity."
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"Bright gem instinct with music, vocal spark."
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"The sentiment of national honor is never more than half extinguished in the French. It takes only a spark to re-kindle it."
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"It is only occasional that talent becomes genius - radiating sparks, brilliance, energy, and charismatic magnetism... such a talent was Janis Joplin."
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"I never struggled with trying to figure out what it was I wanted to do or what made the sparks go for me."
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"Like the tiny spark of fire that consumes a forest, the spark of love is all you need to experience love in its full power and glory, in all its aspects, earthly and divine."
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"A spark can set a whole forest on fire. Just a spark. Save it."
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"The spirit or life spark which animates this manifestation could be called God."
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"Fear is dangerous. It sparks violence much faster than anger."
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"I feel again a spark of that ancient flame."
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"Let us reach for the world that ought to be -- that spark of the divine that still stirs within each of our souls."
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"The Sparks have always been committed to success and making the right moves to build upon their rich tradition in the WNBA."
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"Ritual is the way you carry the presence of the sacred. Ritual is the spark that must not go out."
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"It's hard for me to know. I'll think, 'I really brought off my ideas, it's great,' and no one sparks to it"
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"I need that unexplainable spark. I need to see someone and feel 'oh-oh'. It's only happened a few times in my life."
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"Any time you put too many sparks around a powder keg, the thing is going to explode, and if the things that explodes is still inside the house, then the house will be destroyed."
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"They were not half living, or quarter living. They were simply so many bags of bones in which sparks of life fluttered faintly."
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"People can get involved in wonderfully creative ways that have nothing to do with you, but spark off things you begin with."
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"I read a lot of 'Spark Notes' in high school."
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"If there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire."
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