It's important that someone celebrate our existence . . . People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture.
~Lois McMaster Bujold, Mirror Dance

Next word: solitary

One simile, that solitary shines
In a dry desert of a thousand lines. ~ Alexander Pope


Next word; desert

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The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body. If humanity’s language, technology, and buildings are an extension of its constructive faculties, the desert alone is an extension of its capacity for absence, the ideal schema of humanity’s disappearance.~Jean Baudrillard

Next word: schema

The more the schemata are differentiated, the smaller the gap between the new and the familiar becomes, so that novelty, instead of constituting an annoyance avoided by the subject, becomes a problem and invites searching . ~ Jean Piaget


Next word; searching

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I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
~ Barbra Streisand



Next word: perfectionist

People call me a perfectionist, but I`m not. I`m a rightist. I do something until it`s right, and then I move on to the next thing.~James Cameron

Next word: rightist

I despise all adjectives that try to describe people as liberal of conservative, rightist or leftist, as long as they stay in the useful part of the road.
~ Dwight Eisenhower



Next word: leftist

I sell to leftists , and rightists. I'd sell to pacifists, but they're not the most regular customers . ~ Yuri Orlov


Next word; customers

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Consumersare statistics. Customers are people.
~ Stanley Marcus



Next word: Consumers

Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer . ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


Next word; producer

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Becoming a producer enables you to empower yourself, to make the film that you want to make. I have desires to make movies - I have movies I'm developing, and things that I'm interested in.”
~ Andy Garcia



Next word: empower

If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge, then we're gonna be led down a garden path . ~ Fran Drescher


Next word; path

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Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful . Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path . You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
~Winston Churchill

Next word: fruitful

To get the most out of your life, plant in your mind seeds of constructivepower that will yield fruitful results.~Grenville Kleiser

Next word: constructive

Thinking without constructive action becomes a disease.
~ Henry Ford



Next word: disease

Love is a serious mental disease . ~ Plato


Next word; serious

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There are only two styles of portrait painting, the serious and the smirk.~Charles Dickens

Next word: smirk

A constant smirk upon the face, and a whiffing activity of the body, are strong indications of futility.
~ Lord Chesterfield



Next word: indications

If children grew up according to early indications , we should have nothing but geniuses . ~ Johann von Goethe


Next word; geniuses

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I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect, either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.~Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson (1911)

Next word: affliction