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Lois McMaster Bujold
: ...one of the best things about writing is how it redeems, not to mention recycles, all of one's prior experiences, including -- or perhaps especially -- the failures.
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You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference. You have the sheet of blank paper, the pencil, and the obligation to invent truer than things can be true. You have to take what is not palpable and make it completely palpable and also have it seem normal and so that it can become a part of experience of the person who reads it.
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Our experiments not only proved the existence of a nervous apparatus in the above-mentioned glands, but also disclosed some facts clearly showing the participation of these nerves in normal activity.
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Success comes in cans, failure in can'ts.
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Optimism. The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
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Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass.
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Nothing bad is going to happen to us. If we get fired, it's not failure; its a midlife vocational reassessment.
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Stephen Vizinczey :
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As both capitalist and communist states -- not to mention the technological world --have evolved under the illusion that men purposefully built them, ideological optimism seeps into every niche of our lives. It is made worse by mass culture which feeds our
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An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.
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an optimist is a guy that has never had much experience
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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.
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My home is not a place, it is people.
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Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
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Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
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I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is…the higher achievement.
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A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.
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Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.
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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.
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Our children change uswhether they live or not.
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Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
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I am who I choose to be. I always have been what I chosethough not always what I pleased.
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