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“The one mistake which is committed habitually by people who have the gift of half-genius, is waiting for inspiration.”

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Philip Gilbert Hamerton was a British artist born on September 10, 1834, and died on November 4, 1894. He is known for his unique painting style and profound insights into art. more

“Without those forerunners, Jane Austen and the Brontes and George Eliot could no more have written than Shakespeare could have written without Marlowe, or Marlowe without Chaucer, or Chaucer without those forgotten poets who paved the ways and tamed the natural savagery of the tongue. For masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.”

Source: A Room of One's Own

“And that's the kind of thing people think, you know, that if you sign up to be a singer-songwriter you know how to deal with people setting up hate websites, or people being obsessed with you and crying when you touch them, but you don't, and you just have to deal with.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Kind Hate Deals Know How Cry Singers Setting Settings Obsessed Songwriters Website Singer Songwriters

Author:Jessie J

“On the other hand, although I have a regular work schedule, I take time to go for long walks on the beach so that I can listen to what is going on inside my head. If my work isn't going well, I lie down in the middle of a workday and gaze at the ceiling while I listen and visualize what goes on in my imagination.”

Ifs Wells Long I Can Hands Lying Imagination Walks Middle Goes On Beach Take Time Schedules My Imagination Ceilings Long Walks

Author:Albert Einstein

“I love this book! There are very few cookbooks published today that add something truly new and distinctive to the literature of food and cooking. Jennifer McLagan's Fat is a smart, thoughtful book that ultimately asks us to understand our food better.”

Book Today Asks Literature Smart Cooking Add Fats Thoughtful Distinctive Jennifer Cookbook

Author:Michael Ruhlman

“If the happiness of the mass of mankind can be secured at the expense of a little tempest now and then, or even of a little blood, it will be a precious purchase.”

Ifs Littles Blood Mankind Mass Expenses Now And Then Tempest Secured

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“We are destined to be a barrier against the return of ignorance and barbarism. Old Europe will have to lean on our shoulders, and to hobble along by our side, under the monkish trammels of priests and kings, as she can. What a colossus shall we be when the southern continent comes up to our mark! What a stand will it seem as a ralliance for the reason and freedom of the globe!”

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Book:The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Volume 10: 1 May 1816 to 18 January 1817

Source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Volume 10: 1 May 1816 to 18 January 1817

“A hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance, this new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed. In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia but to keep the very structure of society intact.”

Different War Past Effort Principles Poverty Groups Subjects Objects Ignorance Victory Bases Structure East Versions Asia Ruling Starvation East Asia

Author:George Orwell

“Let people hate you so long as they fear you.”

People Long Hate Hate You

Author:Lucius Accius

“To believe that everyone is honest is folly, but to believe that no one is honest is worse.”

Believe Honest Folly

Author:John Quincy Adams

“Health and happiness give rise to each other.”

Giving

Author:Joseph Addison

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