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“Do not call yourself old. A man is as old as the creative force within him.”

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Irving Stone was an American writer renowned for his biographical works. His books delved deeply into the inner lives of famous individuals, earning him a reputation for his detailed and vivid storytelling. more

“From our best qualities come our worst. From our urge to pull together comes our tendency to tear each other apart. From our devotion to a higher good comes our propensity to the foulest atrocities. From our commitment to ideals comes our excuse to hate. Since the beginning of history, we have been blinded by evil's ability to don a selfless disguise. We have failed to see that our finest qualities often lead us to the actions we most abhor, murder, torture, genocide and war.”

“Nothing adds to a person's leisure time like doing things when they are supposed to be done.”

Persons Done Add Supposed To Be Leisure Leisure Time

Author:Orlando Aloysius Battista

“The single biggest time waster in the world is not completing what you start.”

World Wasting Time Completing

Author:John Nance Garner

“Without confidence, there is no friendship.”

Author:Epicurus

“Ideas are like seeds, apparently insignificant when first held in the hand. Once firmly planted, they can grow and flower into almost anything at all, a cornstalk, or a giant redwood, or a flight across the ocean. Whatever a man imagines, he can achieve.”

Men Firsts Ideas Hands Grows Imagine Achieve Flower Ocean Seeds Flight Giants Insignificant Redwoods

Book:The Spirit of St. Louis

Source: The Spirit of St. Louis

“To sing is to praise God and the daffodils, and to praise God is to thank Him, in every note within my small range, and every color in the tones of my voice, with every look into the eyes of my audience, to thank Him. Thank you, God, for letting me be born, for giving me eyes to see the daffodils lean in the wind, all my brothers, all my sisters, for giving me ears to hear crying, legs to come running, hands to smooth damp hair, a voice to laugh with and to sing with...to sing to you and the daffodils.”

Giving Looks Hands Eye Running Voice Born Audience Laughing Cry Color Brother Wind Hair Ears Praise Notes Legs Range Tone My Brother My Sister Smooth Damp Praise God Thank You God Daffodil

Book:DAYBREAK

Source: DAYBREAK

“It is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie.... There is a truth which is of Satan. Its essence is that under the semblance of truth it denies everything that is real. It lives upon hatred of the real world which is created and loved by God.”

World Real Lying Lovers Hatred Essence Deny Satan Telling The Truth Liars Real World Semblance

Author:Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Lying is a deliberate choice to mislead a target without giving any notification of the intent to do so. There are two major forms of lying: concealment, leaving out true information; and falsification, or presenting false information as if it were true.”

Ifs Giving Two Form Lying Choices Information Majors Leaving Target Deliberate Mislead Presenting Concealment Falsification Notifications

Book:Telling Lies: Clues to Deceit in the Marketplace, Politics, and Marriage (Revised Edition)

Source: Telling Lies: Clues to Deceit in the Marketplace, Politics, and Marriage (Revised Edition)

“You can write anytime people will leave you alone and not interrupt you.”

People Writing

Book:Conversations with Ernest Hemingway

Source: Conversations with Ernest Hemingway

“Short of throwing away all television sets, I really don't know what we can do about writing.”

Knows Writing Can Do Television Throwing Throwing Away

Author:Phyllis A. Whitney

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