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Write down the thoughts of the moment.
Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
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-Francis Bacon
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*Repose, a quiet corner,
fragrant fields, cloudless skies, murmuring brooks, spiritual calm---all
contribute their share in making the most barren of muses teem and bring
forth to the world such offspring as will fill it with wonder and
delight.
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-Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Don Quixote of La Mancha, 1605
Prologue
Walter Starkie, trans., 1964
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. . . originality consists of the
achievement of new combinations, and not of the creation of something out
of nothing.
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-Richard V. Clemence
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See, I think drugs have done some good
things for us. I really do. And if you don't believe drugs have done
good things for us, do me a gavor. Go home tonight, take all your albums,
all your tapes, and all your CD's and burn 'em. Cause you know what? The
musicians who made all that great music, that's enhanced your lives
throughout the years, RRRRRRRRRRReal fuckin' high on drugs.
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-Bill Hicks
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To the creative individual all experience
is seminal- all events are equidistant from new ideas and insights. . .
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-Eric Hoffer
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Society cannot contribute anything to the
breeding and growing of ingenious men. A creative genius cannot be
trained. There are no schools for creativeness. A genius is precisely
a man who defies all schools and rules, who deviates from the traditional
roads of routine and opens up new paths through land inaccessible before.
A genius is always a teacher, never a pupil; he is always self-made.
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-Ludwig von Mises
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Creativity is so delicate a flower that
praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the
bud. Any of us will put out more and better ideas if our efforts are
appreciated.
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-Alex F. Osborn
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*Man's first duty is not
to others, but to himself. He can survive only through the function of his
reasoning mind directed toward the conquest of nature. Which means---his
productive work. This is his primary concern. His creative capacity is
his highest virtue. But we have been taught that the highest virtue is to
give, not to achieve. Yet one cannot give that which has not been created.
Creation comes before distribution---or there will be nothing to distribute.
The need of the creator comes before the need of any possible beneficiary.
The creator stands above any humanitarian.
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-Ayn Rand
Private correspondence to Tom Girdler (founder of Republic Steel and
Vultee Aircraft), July 12, 1943
Letters of Ayn Rand, 1995
Chapter 2, "We The Living to The Fountainhead (1937-1943)"
Michael S. Berliner, ed.
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Out of our quarrels with others we make
rhetoric. Out of our quarrels with ourselves we make poetry.
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-William Butler Yeats
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