The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be ignited. – Plutarch

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All writing is a form of prayer.

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The best way to predict your future is to create it. — Abraham Lincoln

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When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.

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Imagine you had a bank that each morning credited your account with $1,440 - with one condition: whatever part of the $1,440 you failed to use during the day would be erased from your account, and no balance would be carried over. What would you do? You'd draw out every cent every day and use it to your best advantage. Well, you do have such a bank, and its name is time. Every morning, this bank credits you with 1,440 minutes. And it writes off as forever lost whatever portion you have failed to invest to good purpose.

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I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn. ― Anne Frank

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Learn from yesterday. Live for today. Hope for tomorrow. – Albert Einstein

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So, I am independently well-off and don't have to do anything, but I still do. I write books, lecture around the world, work with scientists and governments.

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It is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin - music, sculpture, writing, painting - and by magical I mean intended to produce very definite results. Paintings were originally formulae to make what is painted happen. Art is not an end in itself, any more than Einstein's matter-into-energy formulae is an end in itself. Like all formulae, art was originally FUNCTIONAL, intended to make things happen, the way an atom bomb happens from Einstein's formulae.

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. ― Andre Gide

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