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Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solitude is the enemy of well-being.
Perfection
John Updike

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Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.
Rain
John Updike

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Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.
Religion
John Updike

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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.
Friends and Friendship
Leon Uris

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A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.
Diplomacy
Peter Ustinov

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Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.
Parents and Parenting
Peter Ustinov

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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.
Truth
Paul Valery

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The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
The future
Paul Valery

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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
Belief
Jim Valvano

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If we could sell our experience for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.
Experience
Abigail Van Buren

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Wit is the only wall between us and the dark.
Wit
Mark Van Doren

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But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.
Love
Vincent Van Gogh

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Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
Painters and Painting
Vincent Van Gogh

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The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it, is intolerable.
Desire
Sir John Vanbrugh

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Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
Books - Reading
Raoul Vaneigem

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.
Work
Raoul Vaneigem

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If you don't get a kick out of the job you're doing you'd better hunt for another one.
Enjoyment
Samuel Vauclain

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Caesar had perished from the world of men, had not his sword been rescued by his pen.
History and Historians
Henry Vaughan

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.
Thoughts and Thinking
Marquis De Vauvenargues

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If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
Compliments
Marquis De Vauvenargues

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Obscurity is the realm of error.
Obscurity
Marquis De Vauvenargues

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.
Work
Marquis De Vauvenargues

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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
Failure
Marquis De Vauvenargues

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The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
Risk
Marquis De Vauvenargues

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The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
Knowledge
Marquis De Vauvenargues

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun