"No artist, if he has original talent, can paint like another."

-- Joseph Plaskett

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“The trouble with too many people is they believe the realm of truth always lies within their vision.”
“There's a depth of meaning all on its own in awareness being gentled. From within the subtlety of being gentled, the level of perception changes. Instead of perceiving the obviousness of experience, you're able as awareness to perceive most subtle meaning.”
“In Nature all is common, and no use is base. She keeps no selected elements done up in gilt papers for sensitive people.”

Source : Joel Dorman Steele (1872). “Fourteen Weeks in Chemistry”, p.223
“Airplanes were invented for missionaries to complete the Great Commission.”
“P.J. O'Rourke says that conservatives really hate government and every couple of years we put them in charge and then we're reminded how much we really hate government. We're not always necessarily great at the task of running government. We're the anti-government party. It actually makes some sense we're not so good at that. But you got to have basic competence in how you run the government, even in how you reduce its effectiveness in people's lives.”
“I know what I as an editor respond to is a voice. A voice is not just a stylistic thing, but it means someone who really has something to say. I think a lot of what I get from books - whether they be books of comics or books of literature - is a window into somebody's mind and their way of thinking. Somehow, I can recognize some of my feelings in seeing somebody who is actually expressing their own inner reality.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“The fastest way for you to succeed is by piggy-backing on the good advice and counsel of men and women who have already spent years leaning how to succeed. When you do this on a regular and systematic basis, you will open up doors of opportunity and possibilities for you that today you cannot even imagine.”
“There is nothing so catching as refinement.”

Source : Emily Eden (1861). “The Semi-attached Couple”, p.356

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