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“What we're focusing on is the images that were in people's minds being replaced by fresh images, to make way for the rebirth of New Orleans. We're showing the other side.”
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“There is no word in English for chic. Why should there be? Everything chic is by legend French. Perhaps everything chic is in reality French.”
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“Indolence is the dry rot of even a good mind and a good character; the practical uselessness of both. It is the waste of what might be a happy and useful life.”
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“I keep some portion of my early gleam; Brokenly bright, like moonbeams on a river, It lights my life, a far illusive dream, Moves as I move, and leads me on forever.”
Source : "Twoscore and Ten". "A Home Idyl And Other Poems". Book by John Townsend Trowbridge, quod.lib.umich.edu. 1881. 
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“That we have great men in our time and recent times is not because of our educational system, but rather in spite of it. They are the ones the teachers couldn't spoil.”
Source : Dagobert D. Runes (2015). “Treasury of Thought”, p.67, Open Road Media
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“It will not always be summer: build barns.”
Source : Hesiod (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Hesiod (Illustrated)”, p.49, Delphi Classics
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“To be resigned when ills betide, Patient when favours are deni'd, And pleas'd with favours given,- Dear Chloe, this is wisdom's part; This is that incense of the heart Whose fragrance smells to heaven.”
Source : "The Fireside, stanza 11". "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.
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“The creative instincts, the love force must be nourished with every beat of our hearts until they overbalance the destructive instincts.”
