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  • Boris Pasternak Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Bernard Berenson Art is mind and heart and touch as much and more than it is mere instrument, technique - without which however it cannot exist at all.
    Bernard Berenson
    American art historian (1865 - 1959)
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  • Isadora Duncan Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love -to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.
    Isadora Duncan
    American Dancer (1877 - 1927)
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  • Günter Grass Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.
    Günter Grass
    German writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1999) (1927 - 2015)
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  • Willa Cather Art, it seems to me, should simplify finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit of the whole - so that all that one has suppressed and cut away is there to the reader's consciousness as much as if it were in type on the page.
    Willa Cather
    American author (1873 - 1947)
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  • Burgess Owens As a former NFL player, I am one American who will have nothing to do with any NFL Team that cannot find the corporate courage to stand for the millions of courageous past great Americans whose sacrifice gave meaning to our flag and national anthem and to the millions upon millions who still dream to come to its free shores.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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  • Arlen Specter As a matter of traditional and sound constitutional doctrine, an amendment to the Constitution should be the last resort when all other measures have proved inadequate.
    Arlen Specter
    American lawyer, author, and politician (1930 - 2012)
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  • Britney Spears As a mom, you have all these situations you go through, and you're like, 'What is going on? Is this normal? Is this a phase? Or what is this?' and then you feel silly for asking questions because you think, 'I'm a mom - I'm supposed to know these things,' but you don't.
    Britney Spears
    American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actress (1981 - )
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  • Bruce Barton As a profession advertising is young; as a force it is as old as the world. The first four words ever uttered, Let there be light, constitute its charter. All nature is vibrant with its impulse.
    Bruce Barton
    American Author, Advertising Executive (1886 - 1967)
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  • Ada Leverson As a rule the person found out in a betrayal of love holds, all the same, the superior position of the two. It is the betrayed one who is humiliated.
    Loves Shadow (1908) Ch. xxxix
    Ada Leverson
    British writer (1862 - 1933)
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  • William James As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Ernest Renan As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost.
    Ernest Renan
    French writer and critic (1823 - 1892)
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  • Alistair Cooke As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later.
    Alistair Cooke
    British journalist (1908 - 2004)
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  • Lance Morrow As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.
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  • Cate Blanchett As an actor, I endeavor to find the reason in the unreasonable. Because no one thinks they are being unreasonable or unrealistic or demanding or behaving madly. We all see ourselves as being justified.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Benjamin Todd Jealous As an American people, what is greatest about our history are the many times we have led this world away from hate, towards hope.
    Benjamin Todd Jealous
    American civic leader and politician (1973 - )
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  • Brihadaranyaka Upanishad As an eagle, weary after soaring in the sky, folds its wings and flies down to rest in its nest, so does the shining Self enter the state of dreamless sleep, where one is freed from all desires.
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  • Carl Van Vechten As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
    Carl Van Vechten
    American writer and photographer (1880 - 1964)
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  • Brad Feld As an investor, I'm always looking for the next great American company. Who will create tomorrow's Twitter, Facebook, or Google?
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Ben Chandler As attorney general, I've had some connection with just about every important public issue in the last eight years in Kentucky. All of the important public issues of the day have, at some point.
    Ben Chandler
    American politician and lawyer (1959 - )
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