"A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles."
-William Hazlitt
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"People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.“
-William Hazlitt
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"Grace in women has more effect than beauty."
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"To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue."
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"The seat of knowledge is in the head of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right."
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"Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves."
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"An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence a vain man, in order that it may."
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"I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen."
-Tom Stoppard
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"Working with my dad was such a gas. We approached the work in a similar way. We only made two films together when I was an adult, Tucker, and Blown Away, but it was so much fun to play with your parent like that."
-Jeff Bridges
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"My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful."
-Tom Stoppard
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"The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist."
-Novalis
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"Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within."
-Caspar David Friedrich
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"The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work."
-Brian Eno
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