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I have been told by a member of the board of one of Canada's most prominent literary magazines that a submission of mine once caused a great deal of controversy. ↗

— John Barton

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First I shall name the eagle, of which there are three species: the great grey eagle is the largest, of great strength and high flight; he chiefly preys on fawns and other young quadrupeds. ↗

— William Bartram

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My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to view. ↗

— William Bartram

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Because I know something that you don't know. I know that this is the worst experience of your life, but I also know that someday you'll move past it and you'll be fine. And helping somebody likej you through the worst experience of her life is incredibly gratifying. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

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I want to do exactly what I want to do. I'd rather gamble on the box office than beg for a grant. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#box #box office #exactly #gamble #grant

By the time I was 9, I had the conviction that everybody in the world was an artist except plumbers or people who delivered groceries. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#by the time #conviction #delivered #everybody #except

I don't have perfect teeth, I'm not stick thin. I want to be the person who feels great in her body and can say that she loves it and doesn't want to change anything. ↗

— Emma Watson

#body #change #feels #great #her

The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him. And he must have a strong sense of the sardonic. This is what uncouples him from belief in his own pretensions. The sardonic is all that permits him to move within himself. Without this quality, even occasional greatness will destroy a man. ↗

— Frank Herbert

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Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. ↗

— Frederic Bastiat

#endeavors #everybody #everybody else #expense #fiction