It must be noted that it is often the colleague or direct disciple of a new thinker who gets stuck in literal interpretations of the work, tending to freeze the new ideas and language into an inflexible, static condition.

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I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.

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Rest, nature, books, music...such is my idea of happiness.

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Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating. But I carried that with me for the rest of my life.

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Here is the world of imagination, hopes and dreams. In this timeless land of enchantment, the age of chivalry, magic and make-believe are reborn ― and fairy tales come true. ― Walt Disney

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And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.

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One is astonished in the study of history at the recurrence of the idea that evil must be forgotten, distorted, skimmed over. We must not remember that Daniel Webster got drunk but only that he was a splendid constitutional lawyer. We must forget that George Washington was a slave owner . . . and simply remember the things we regard as creditable and inspiring. The difficulty, of course, with this philosophy is that history loses its value as an incentive and example; it paints perfect man and noble nations, but it does not tell the truth.

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The difference between winning and losing is most often not quitting. ― Walt Disney

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Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.

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Whatsoever thy birth, Thou wert a beautiful thought, and softly bodied forth.

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