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They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly tho...

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My opinion is a view I hold until... well until I find something that changes it.

For an artist is not a consumer, as our commercials urge us to be. An artist is a nourisher and a cr...

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All our final resolutions are made in a state of mind which is not going to last.

I will not change just to court popularity.

Mourning is not forgetting. ... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something pe...

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Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

Birth is violent whether it be the birth of a child or the birth of an idea.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

We are chameleons and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facilit...

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There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency and a virtue and that ...

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Obstinacy and heat in sticking to one's opinions is the surest proof of stupidity. Is there anything...

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

I’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up in the morning and see the light...

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Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.

In the future, as in the present, as in the past, black people will build many new worlds.This is tr...

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The rockets and the satellites, spaceships that we're creating now, we're pollinating the universe.

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so conc...

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He disregarded everything, he gave everything to art. He tirelessly visited galleries, spent whole h...

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Nikolai GogolThe Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol

I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own inter...

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I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

Up until then, whenever anyone had mentioned the possibility of making a film adaptation, my answer ...

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You are looking outside, and that is what you should most avoid right now. No one can advise or help...

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With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. ... Speak what you think today in words as h...

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I wish to say what I think and feel today with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict...

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I believe in having fun first, and along the way, if you teach people, if you influence people, well...

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I'm not really interested in music. Music is just a means of creating a magical state.

To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years ...

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Have no fear of change as such and on the other hand no liking for it merely for its own sake.

Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will cons...

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It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma tha...

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Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will cons...

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It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma tha...

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Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will cons...

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It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma tha...

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Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will cons...

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It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma tha...

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Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will cons...

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It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma tha...

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Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will cons...

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It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma tha...

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Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will cons...

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It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma tha...

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Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will cons...

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It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma tha...

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Such is the state of life that none are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself i...

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None are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing when we have made it...

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Leadership, on the other hand, is about creating change you believe in.

Nothing should be permanent except struggle with the dark side within ourselves.

Those interested in perpetuating present conditions are always in tears about the marvelous past tha...

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I have never felt like I was creating anything. For me, writing is like walking through a desert and...

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There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

Today is not yesterday how can our works and thoughts if they are always to be the fittest contin...

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Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself (I am large I contain multitudes).

The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water and breeds reptiles of the mind.

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

Security can only be achieved through constant change through discarding old ideas that have outliv...

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A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

We must beware of needless innovations especially when guided by logic.

To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.

If you want to make enemies try to change something.

At a certain point you have to leave childish things behind, and one of the childish things is a sen...

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I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors and I shall adopt new views so fast as they s...

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Creating is living doubly. The groping, anxious quest of a Proust, his meticulous collecting of flow...

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Albert CamusThe Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

Consistency is contrary to nature contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the d...

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Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as for the body.

The consistent thinker ... is either a walking mummy or else if he has not succeeded in stifling al...

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Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results we value it in the act.

The more things change the more they remain the same.

All changes even the most longed for have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part ...

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To change skins evolve into new cycles I feel one has to learn to discard. If one changes internal...

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One must be thrust out of a finished cycle in life and that leap is the most difficult to make-to p...

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Oh would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas as the tree does its withered leaves!

One must lose one's life in order to find it.

Duration is not a test of true or false.

Any change even a change for the better is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

The mill wheel turns it turns forever though what is uppermost remains not so.

We don't value craftsmanship anymore! All we value is ruthless efficiency, and I say we deny our own...

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Bill WattersonThere's Treasure Everywhere: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

Any path is only a path and there is no affront to oneself or to others in dropping it if that is...

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Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics.

The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented. It was man’s ability to invent which ha...

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If you board the wrong train it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.

In a way winter is the real spring the time when the inner things happen the resurge of nature.

To some will come a time when change itself is beauty if not heaven.

I don't create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.

SpaceX has the potential of saving the U.S. government $1 billion a year. We are opposed to creating...

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Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding.

I have accepted fear as a part of life-specifically the fear of change. ... I have gone ahead despit...

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To create, I destroyed myself; I made myself external to such a degree within myself that within mys...

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Like every dreamer, I've always felt that my calling was to create. Since I've never been able to ma...

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A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change not destruction which takes place.

Things good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins become fetters if t...

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Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.