“ Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. ”
- Cleveland Amory- Copy
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“ Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man. ”
- Kahlil Gibran- Copy
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“ No one has ever said it, but how painfully true it is that the poor have us always with them. ”
- Hector Hugh Munro- Copy
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“ I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist. ”
- Robert Crumb- Copy
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“ If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives would be not only meager but in a youth-worshiping country like America, painfully brief. ”
- Gore Vidal- Copy
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“ 'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow. ”
- J. A. Spender- Copy
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“ Can machines have souls? You ask me that and I ask you if souls can learn. If they can't — then of what importance is this concept? Sterile and empty and unchangeable for eternity. How much more preferable it is to understand that we create ourselves… ”
- Harry Harrison and Marvin Minsky- Copy
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“ Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change. ”
- Robert F. Kennedy- Copy
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“ A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification. ”
- D. H. Lawrence- Copy
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