Quotern

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Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing.... For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.

-- Ernest Hemingway

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The ascent of money has been essential to the ascent of man.

-- Niall Ferguson

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The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.

-- William James

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What maintains the marriage and what is it? Only the knowledge of the hearts, that is its beginning and end.

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Before God we are equally wise and equally foolish.

-- Albert Einstein

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Change means that what was before wasn't perfect. People want things to be better.

-- Esther Dyson

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God is Love I dare say. But what a mischievous devil Love is

-- Samuel Butler

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Love is not of value when this superficial contract must be drawn up, representing the two worlds that enclose us.

-- Coco J. Ginger

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Real poetry is art at its purest sense. It is never a commodity, but a breath of eternity.

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There is a tonic strength, in the hour of sorrow and affliction, in escaping from the world and society and getting back to the simple duties and interests we have slighted and forgotten. Our world grows smaller, but it grows dearer and greater. Simple things have a new charm for us, and we suddenly realize that we have been renouncing all that is greatest and best, in our pursuit of some phantom.

-- William George Jordan

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