"Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day."
-Thornton Wilder
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"The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.“
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"Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success."
-Thornton Wilder
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"Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday."
-Thornton Wilder
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"Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder."
-Thornton Wilder
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"Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value."
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"Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous."
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"I always felt like my future was at stake every time I stepped on stage and that was kind of hair-raising. At some point I just went, don't be frightened, you can't do anything wrong, it's your show."
-Rickie Lee Jones
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"Our challenge for the future is that we realize we are very much a part of the earth's ecosystem, and we must learn to respect and live according to the basic biological laws of nature."
-Jim Fowler
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"There was a certain point in my life where I had to decide that I was going to take my future and Nicole's and not wallow in what happened to me because when you do that, you just keep repeating what's been happening and at some point you have to make a choice."
-Boris Kodjoe
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"If we are to garner sustained U.S. domestic support for future trade agreements, we have to make sure those Americans who have suffered as a consequence of past agreements have an effective social safety net, adjustment assistance, opportunities for retraining and new job creation that enables all Americans to thrive."
-Susan Rice
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"And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past - except there was no future and no past, but an infinite number of brackets, extending either way, each bracket enclosing its single phase of the Universe."
-Clifford D. Simak
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"The Nuclear Security Summit was President Obama's initiative born out of his vision to leave behind a safer, more prosperous world for the future generation."
-Lee Myung-bak
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