"And what, then, is belief? It is the demi-cadence which closes a musical phrase in the symphony of our intellectual life."

-- Charles Sanders Peirce

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“Discipline is necessary to curb the mind, otherwise there is no peace.”
“I feel most real to myself in the studio.”
“They have just succeeded in raising the two thousand pounds here, by subscription, that was wanted towards an exploration fund, for fitting out an expedition, that will probably start for the interior of our continent next March.”
“I put pressure on myself to propose something new - I think it's the minimum that you can do as a fashion designer.”

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“I never saw myself as being ambitious, I saw myself as being in love with the profession. I'm a people person. I love to get to know different kinds of people.”
“I'm a member of the weeper sex.”
“Whatever the scenario, the dynamism of developing nations, their demographics and competitive power are great sources for superiority.”
“In fiction the narrator is a performance of voice, and it can be any style of voice, but I'm interested in the ways that a voice that knows it's telling a story is actually telling a different story than it intends to. In the way that I can sit here and tell you what I had for breakfast, but I'm really telling you that I'm having an affair, something like that. And I don't think my writing is plain, but I think a lot of my characters are just talking. There is vulnerability there, in that we can start to see through them, we can start to see where they're deceiving themselves.”

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