"There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Women artists need to break barriers in order for women's experience to be valuable”

Source : Interview with Melanie Haupt, www.austinchronicle.com. March 14, 2003.
“Propaganda will never die out. Intelligent men must realize that propaganda is the modern instrument by which they can fight for productive ends and help to bring order out of chaos.”

Source : Edward Bernays (2017). “Propaganda”, p.124, Lulu.com
“A mighty power and stronger Man from his throne has hurled,For the hand that rocks the cradle Is the hand that rules the world.”

Source : J .K. Hoyt 'Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations' (1896) 402
“So I do tend to do documentaries where I can move in and out of them.”

Source : "Michael Apted Goes from “7 Up” to 007". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. November 18, 1999.
“It was humanly impossible for the disciples to free themselves from their selfish pursuit of self-exaltation, just as it's impossible for us to free ourselves from the very same sins.”
“The death of my mother permanently affects my happiness, more even than I should have anticipated, though I always knew that I must feel the separation at first as a severe wrench. But I did not apprehend, during her life, to what a degree she prevented me from feeling heart-solitude ...”

Source : Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1873). “Memoir and Letters”, p.345
“Perhaps the most important thing I could say is to never be thrown by failure and mistakes. Each and everything that happens, even if it was not what you hoped would happen, is a valuable, life-learning tool. And you will only achieve success if you know how to learn from your failures and mistakes. Itâ€™s vital.”
“We have a lot of politicians who have really small brains and really big hearts.”

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