John Dryden

The gates of Hell are open night and day Smooth the descent, and easy is the way But, to return, and view the cheerful skies In this, the task and mighty labor lies.

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Walter Benjamin

Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.

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Erica Jong

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

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Lester Bowles Pearson

The fact is that we prepare for war like giants, and for peace like pygmies.

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Vince Lombardi

Winning is not a sometime thing it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

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Gail

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.

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Albert Einstein

I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts the rest are details.

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Herodotus

Very few things happen at the right time and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.

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Chinese Proverb

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

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Robert Chapman

A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.

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W. Somerset Maugham

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

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