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Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.


Julia Cameron
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Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.
Friedrich Schiller
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Where words fail, music speaks.


Hans Christian Andersen
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In some ways I believe music is the more convincing communicator of ideas than words. For instance, we can hear of Kordaly and Bartok and recognise them as Hungarian, but very few of us speak Hungarian, but the music itself speaks to more people.
Leonard Slatkin
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Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.


Desiderius Erasmus
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Chess: It's like alcohol. It's a drug. I have to control it, or it could overwhelm me. I have a regular Monday night game at my home, and I do play a little online.
Charles Krauthammer
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Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.


Ovid
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I think the 16 years that I spent in Green Bay speaks for itself.


Brett Favre
I've always been shy and that's partly why I chose a life behind the lens. I like people to look at my work and hopefully it speaks for itself.
Bruce Weber
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Never explain what you do. It speaks for itself. You only muddle it by talking about it.


Shel Silverstein
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A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.
Albert Schweitzer
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In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.
W. Somerset Maugham
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To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
William Shakespeare
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In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death.
Thomas Wolfe
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What people love about Santorum is he is who is he. He speaks his words. He loves God. He loves his country, and he loves gays.
Foster Friess
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An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.


William Hazlitt
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For although Claudius had been accused of gambling and drunkenness, not only were no worse sins laid to his charge, but he had successfully established some claim to being considered a learned man.
Frederic William Farrar
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Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.
H. L. Mencken
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Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.


Mark Twain
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The most dangerous part of the race is early evening and especially early morning. It's the twilight zone. Either you're going into darkness and the sun is dropping down, or you're coming out of the darkness and the sun is coming up. At the same time, you've got new drivers coming in and feeling their way around the circuit.
Allan McNish
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