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The agent never receipts his bill, puts his hat on and bows himself out. He stays around forever, not only for as long as you can write anything that anyone will buy, but as long as anyone will buy any portion of any right to anything that you ever did write. He just takes ten per cent of your life.
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The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college; the task is to help him become a self-educating man.
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The ambitious will always be first in the crowd; he presseth forward, he looketh not behind him. More anguish is it to his mind to see one before him, than joy to leave thousands at a distance.
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The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by means of a telegram in cipher.
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The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.
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The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
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The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road.
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The anthropologist must relinquish his comfortable position in the long chair on the veranda of the missionary compound, Government station, or planter's bungalow, where, armed with pencil and notebook and at times with a whisky and soda, he has been accustomed to collect statements from informants.... He must go out into the villages, and see the natives at work in gardens, on the beach, in the jungle; he must sail with them to distant sandbanks and to foreign tribes.
Myth in Primitive Psychology (1926)Bronislaw Malinowski
Polish anthropologist and ethnographer based in England and the USA (1884 - 1942) -
The aphorism as a man thinketh in his heart so is he contains the secret of life.
Striking Thoughts (2000) p. 4; Lee here quotes Proverbs 23:7 As he thinketh -
The architect, Peter Arens who is the monstrous carbuncle architect, not merely did his design which had won a public competition never get built but his practice suffered financially for some years.
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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.
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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.
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The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion.
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The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.
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The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.
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The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process.
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The artist makes art not to save mankind but to save himself. Every benevolent comment by an artist is a fog to cover his tracks, the bloody trail of his assault against reality and others.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.
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The artists is responsible for his history and his nature, his history is part of his nature.
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