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Families are great murderers of the creative impulsive, particularly husbands.

Brenda Ueland

Science and vivisection make no appeal to a theological idea, much less a political one.
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Animal Powerful Science
we like fixed rules because that ends thinking and we can rest. But there is no resting place down here.
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Ends Fixed Thinking
Try to discover your true, honest, untheoretical self.
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Esteem Self Trying
Sometimes I think that perhaps the most competent business men, and lawyers and doctors, who must be at the office at nine o’clock every morning, do not realize this and take more credit for initiative and industry than they deserve.
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Credit Doctor More Morning Office Realize
And least of all – which is so important, too – to those we do not love. But we should. Because listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force…When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.
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Imporatnt Least Listened Strange
The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or wonderfully funny.
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Love You Teacher Thinking
The best way to know the Truth or Beauty is to try to express it.
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Best Way Trying Way
…at last I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had.
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Feelings People Writing
And so try listening. Listen to your wife, your husband, your father, your mother, your children, your friends; to those who love you and those who don’t, to those who bore you, to your enemies. It will work a small miracle. And perhaps a great one.
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Children Enemies Friends Husband
There is that American pastime known as “kidding” – with the result that everyone is ashamed and hangdog about showing the slightest enthusiasm or passion or sincere feeling about anything.
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Enthusiasm Feelings Passion
… when I am really alone some power seems to grow in me. … Conjugality made me think of a three-legged race, where two people cannot go fast and keep tripping each other because their two legs are tied together.
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Race Thinking Two
Families are great murderers of the creative impulsive, particularly husbands.
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Creative Husband Murderer
Work freely and rollickingly as though you were talking to a friend who loves you. Mentally (at least three or four times a day) thumb your nose at all know-it-alls, jeerers, critics, doubters.
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Love Talking Three You
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other. We are constantly being re-created.
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Listening People Tired
Know that it is good to work. Work with love and think of liking it when you do it.
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Knows Thinking Work
You have to hold your audience in writing to the very end-much more than in talking, when people have to be polite and listen to you.
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People Talking Writing

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