(about William Blake)[Blake] said most of us mix up God and Satan. He said that what most people think is God is merely prudence, and the restrainer and inhibitor of energy, which results in fear and passivity and "imaginative death." And what we so often...
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Brenda Ueland
Beware of the thief who is after your cash; but be more cautious of the thief in the mind that's after your kind, your promise - your dream, your future.
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Bernard Kelvin Clive
Maxim 29: The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. No more. No less.- The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries
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Howard Tayler
It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institution and merely...
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Anonymous
Anytime you speak to anybody, remember somebody
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Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
More Quotes By Muriel Spark
Many receive advice only the wise profit by it.
Admonish your friends privately but praise them openly.
If you wish to reach the highest begin at the lowest.
It is a good thing to learn caution by the misfortunes of others.
The circumstances of others seem good to us while ours seem good to others.
