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  • Alberto Giacometti If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldn't have to paint at all.
    Alberto Giacometti
    Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker (1901 - 1966)
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  • Andreas Capellanus If out of all mankind one finds a single friend, he has found something more precious than any treasure, since there is nothing in the world so valuable that it can be compared to a real friend.
    Andreas Capellanus
    French writer (1150 - 1220)
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  • Warren Buffett If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
    Warren Buffett
    American investment entrepreneur (1930 - )
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  • Carl Gustav Jung If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Michelangelo If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
    Michelangelo
    Italian sculptor, painter and poet (1475 - 1564)
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  • Nadine Gordimer If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there'd be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.
    Nadine Gordimer
    South african writer (1923 - 2014)
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  • John Keats If poetry comes not as naturally as leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Bill Dedman If police officers routinely issue tickets for the most serious traffic offenses, they'll be treating drivers of all races, sexes, and ages equally.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Evelyn Waugh If politicians and scientist were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
    Evelyn Waugh
    British novelist (1903 - 1966)
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  • Erica Jong If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that's the most revolutionary insight of all.
    Erica Jong
    American author (1942 - )
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  • Vladimir Ilyich Lenin If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years.
    Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
    Russian revolutionary leader (1870 - 1924)
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  • Luis Bunuel If someone were to prove to me - right this minute - that God, in all his luminousness, exists, it wouldn't change a single aspect of my behavior.
    Luis Bunuel
    Spanish director (1900 - 1983)
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  • Arthur Blank If something happens, you have to realize that you can't just yell at people all the time.
    Arthur Blank
    American businessman (1942 - )
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich If that's how it all started, then we might as well face the fact that what's left out there is a great deal of shrapnel and a whole bunch of cinders (one of which is, fortunately, still hot enough and close enough to be good for tanning).
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • William Blake If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru chinks of his cavern.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • A. R. Ammons If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.
    A. R. Ammons
    American poet (1926 - 2001)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Brit Hume If the markets had behaved badly, that would obviously add to people's sense of alarm... but there has been a lot of reassurance coming, particularly in the way the Brits handled all this. There seems to be no great fear that something like that is going to happen here.
    Brit Hume
    American journalist and political commentator (1943 - )
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  • W. H. Auden If the most significant characteristic of man is the complex of biological needs he shares with all members of his species, then the best lives for the writer to observe are those in which the role of natural necessity is clearest, namely, the lives of the very poor.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Robert Hewison If the only new thing we have to offer is an improved version of the past, then today can only be inferior to yesterday. Hypnotized by images of the past, we risk losing all capacity for creative change.
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