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Post by Basil on Dec 23, 2010 16:36:32 GMT 7
“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” Herman Melville
Comment: Don't they mean the same thing?
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Post by Basil on Dec 23, 2010 16:36:55 GMT 7
“Originality is not seen in single words or even sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.” Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Post by Basil on Dec 24, 2010 23:06:46 GMT 7
“The history of a people is found in its songs”
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Post by Basil on Dec 25, 2010 22:57:43 GMT 7
“In the ancient recipe, the three antidotes for dullness or boredom are sleep, drink, and travel. It is rather feeble. From sleep you wake up, from drink you become sober, and from travel you come home again. And then where are you? No, the two sovere” D.H. Lawrence
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Post by Basil on Jan 2, 2011 0:32:32 GMT 7
JK Rowling's Commencement Speech at Harvard [click]The videos can be found on youtube. I think TheDailySnitcher's upload is clearer than DTFunView's upload.
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Post by Basil on Jan 2, 2011 13:51:45 GMT 7
“Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.” Chinese Proverb
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Post by Basil on Jan 3, 2011 23:31:06 GMT 7
“You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'” George Bernard Shaw
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Post by Basil on Jan 3, 2011 23:31:46 GMT 7
“I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.” Helen Keller
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Post by Basil on Jan 3, 2011 23:33:11 GMT 7
“Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world” Maria Montessori
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Post by Basil on Jan 3, 2011 23:57:38 GMT 7
“Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.” Ambrose Bierce
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Post by Basil on Jan 4, 2011 21:58:52 GMT 7
“One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.” Alvin Toffler
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Post by Basil on Jan 4, 2011 22:06:58 GMT 7
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." Albert Einstein
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Post by Basil on Jan 13, 2011 22:20:23 GMT 7
“Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.” Dag Hammarskjold
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Post by Basil on Jan 13, 2011 22:21:18 GMT 7
“What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?” T.S. Eliot
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Post by Basil on Jan 13, 2011 22:21:47 GMT 7
“Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate” Germaine Greer
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