"A particular train of thought persisted in, be it good or bad, cannot fail to produce its results on the character and circumstances. A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances."

-- James Allen

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“I don't think anyone ever gets over anything in life; they merely get used to it.”
“Just because you didn't start out perfect doesn't mean you can't have an excellent result in the end.”
“Let them march all they want, as long as they continue to pay their taxes.”
“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.”

Source : Charles Mingus' statement in Mainliner Magazine (July 1977); later quoted in Olivia Bertagnolli "Creativity and the writing process" (p. 182), 1982.
“It's a hard world for little things,”

Source : "Fictional character: Rachel Cooper". Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, www.imdb.com. 1955.
“This may be the very nature of love, a passion as fickle as the sea, full of certainty when the object of desire is absent, yet dubious when confronted again with the lover's presence.”
“Through reproductive technology, postmodernist art dispenses with the aura. The fiction of the creating subject gives way to a frank confiscation, quotation, excerptation, accumulation, and repetition of already existing images. Notions of originality, authenticity, and presence... are undermined.”

Source : Douglas Crimp, Louise Lawler (1995). “On the Museum's Ruins”, p.58, MIT Press
“When you do your best and live out your dreams, you inspire others to do the same.”

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