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… the great artists … do not want security, egoistic or materialistic.

Brenda Ueland

You can argue with a theologian or a politician, but doctors are sacrosanct. They know; you do not. Science has its mystique much more powerful than any religion active today.
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Active Religion Science Today
These people who are always briskly doing something and as busy as waltzing mice, they have little, sharp, staccato ideas, such as: “I see where I can make an annual cut of $3.47 in my meat budget.” But they have no slow, big ideas.
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Busy Cutting Ideas Thinking Waiting
You Do Not Know Is in You- an Inexhaustible Fountain of Ideas. Another reason for writing a diary is to discover that the ideas in you are an inexhaustible fountain.
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Fountain Ideas Knows
Why should we all use our creative power….? Because there is nothing that makes people so generous, joyful, lively, bold and compassionate, so indifferent to fighting and the accumulation of objects and money.
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Art Compassion Fighting
Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.
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Acceptance Inspirational Unique
Think of yourself as incandescent power, illuminated perhaps and forever talked to by God and his messengers.
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Forever Power Thinking
Write a true, careless, slovenly impulsive, honest diary every day of your life.
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Diaries Honest Writing
The best way to know the Truth or Beauty is to try to express it.
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Best Way Trying Way
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
the only way to become a better writer is to become a better person.
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Better Person Way Writing
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
Your motto: Be Bold, Be Free, Be Truthful.
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Being Bold Motto Truthful
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
The writer has a feeling and utters it from his true self. The reader reads it and is immediately infected and has exactly the same feeling. This is the whole secret of enchantment and fascination.
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Feelings Secret Self
You know, I have come to think listening is love, that’s what it really is.
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Listening Thinking
But the great artists like Michelangelo and Blake and Tolstoi–like Christ whom Blake called an artist because he had one of the most creative imaginations that ever was on earth–do not want security, egoistic or materialistic. Why, it never occurs to them.
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Artist Peace People

… the great artists … do not want security, egoistic or materialistic.

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… the great artists … do not want security, egoistic or materialistic.

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