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John Updike
: Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solitude is the enemy of well-being.
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Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.
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Ray Bradbury :
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Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.
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Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
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"[Hugo Chávez is] going to make Venezuela a launching pad for communist infiltration and Muslim extremism all over the continent... he is an out-of-control dictator... a dangerous enemy to our south, controlling a huge pool of oil that could hurt us very badly." [8]
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Thomas Carlyle :
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No violent extreme endures.
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Friedrich Nietzsche :
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Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.
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Quentin Crisp :
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This woman did not fly to extremes; she lived there.
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Bishop Hall :
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Nothing fools people as much as extreme passion.
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Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.
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Thus must we toil in other men's extremes, That know not how to remedy our own.
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Sir Walter Raleigh :
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It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme, forgetting that virtue doth always consist in the mean.
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Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
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A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
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Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better.
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Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.
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Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.
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I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.
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Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solitude is the enemy of well-being.
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America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.
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Sex is like money; only too much is enough.
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Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by the televised evening news, or a Last Judgment not subject to pages of holier-than-thou second-guessing in The New York Review of Books.
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