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Look, you see those groups talkin' about negativity and anger, and they'd do that for two albums, and then you'd see them change up. I knew they couldn't do a Kurt Cobain on their whole career. You can't stay like that all the time. It's like when Hammer tried to go gangster. You can't be something that you're not.

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James Russell Lowell

There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.

Advice, Business, Keeping, Risk, Saving, Steady

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The only conclusive evidence of a man's sincerity is that he gives himself for a principle. Words, money, all things else, are comparatively easy to give away; but when a man makes a gift of his daily life and practice, it is plain that the truth, whatever it may be, has taken possession of him.

Easy, Life, Men, Plain, Practice, Taken

And what they dare to dream of, date to do.

Dare, Dare To Dream, Daring, Date, Dream

Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality.

Genius, Human, Human Nature, Originality, Sameness

What men call luck Is the prerogative of valiant souls, The fealty life pays its rightful kings.

Kings, Men, Rightful, Soul, Souls

For only by unlearning Wisdom comes.

Unlearning, Wisdom

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Look, you see those groups talkin' about negativity and anger, and they'd do that for two albums, and then you'd see them change up. I knew they couldn't do a Kurt Cobain on their whole career. You can't stay like that all the time. It's like when Hammer tried to go gangster. You can't be something that you're not.

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Martin Freeman

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I've always loved Christmas and that's not really gone away from me from being a child to now. It's always a magical time and I'm unashamed in my love for Christmas.

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Albert Einstein

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The tyranny of the ignoramuses is insurmountable and assured for all time.

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Ernest Hemingway

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For him it was a dark passage which led to nowhere, then to nowhere, then again to nowhere, once again to nowhere, always and forever to nowhere, heavy on the elbows in the earth to nowhere, dark, never any end to nowhere, hung on all time always to unknowing nowhere, this time and again for always to nowhere, now not to be borne once again always and to nowhere, now beyond all bearing up, up, up and into nowhere, suddenly, scaldingly, holdingly all nowhere gone and time absolutely still and they were both there, time having stopped and he felt the earth move out and away from under them.

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Thomas Carlyle

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The true epic of our times is not "Arm's and the Man," but "Tools and the Man"--an infinitely wider kind of epic.

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