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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

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Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

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We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

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If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

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Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. ↗

— Sun Tzu

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Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

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I consider a day without running a crappy day. ↗

— Julie Bowen

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Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory. ↗

— Sun Tzu

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People are so easily impressed by running, but I run pretty frequently. ↗

— Julie Bowen

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People should be judged on the basis of their performance, not nationality, personality, education, or personal traits and skills. ↗

— Marvin Bower

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