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  • Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt Man is more disposed to domination than freedom; and a structure of dominion not only gladdens the eye of the master who rears and protects it, but even its servants are uplifted by the thought that they are members of a whole, which rises high above the life and strength of single generations.
    Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
    German statesman (1767 - 1835)
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  • Bil Keane Many of my cartoons are not a belly laugh. I go for nostalgia, the lump in the throat, the tear in the eye, the tug in the heart.
    Bil Keane
    American cartoonist (1922 - 2011)
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  • Winston Churchill Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Merely having an open mind is nothing; the object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • James Thomson More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.
    James Thomson
    Scottish poet (1700 - 1748)
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  • Caio Fonseca Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.
    Caio Fonseca
    American painter (1959 - )
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  • Billy Collins My poems tend to have rhetorical structures; what I mean by that is they tend to have a beginning, a middle, and an end. There tends to be an opening, as if you were reading the opening chapter of a novel. They sound like I'm initiating something, or I'm making a move.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Rodney Dangerfield My wife is always trying to get rid of me. The other day she told me to put the garbage out. I said to her I already did. She told me to go and keep an eye on it.
    Rodney Dangerfield
    American comedian, actor (1921 - 2004)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Dag Hammarskjöld Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only those who keep their eye fixed on the far horizon will find their right road.
    Dag Hammarskjöld
    Swedish diplomat (1905 - 1961)
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  • Bram Stoker No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.
    Dracula (1897) Jonathan Harker
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • Samuel Johnson No man likes to live under the eye of perpetual disapprobation.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Aristotle No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Mary Wollstonecraft Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose-a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
    Mary Wollstonecraft
    British feministisch writer (1759 - 1797)
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  • Adam Schiff Notwithstanding these setbacks, the dream of a beautiful American orchestra goes on, and I share Dr. King's faith that each year we move inexorably closer to a magnificent opening night.
    Adam Schiff
    American lawyer and politician (1960 - )
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  • William Shakespeare O sleep, O gentle sleep, nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee, that thou no more wilt weigh my eye-lids down and steep my senses in forgetfulness?
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Ben Shahn Of course I realize that photography is not the technical facility as much as it is the eye, and this decision that one makes for the moment at which you are going to snap, you know.
    Ben Shahn
    Lithuanian-born American artist (1898 - 1969)
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  • Lord George Byron Oh! too convincing - dangerously dear - In woman's eye the unanswerable tear!
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Brigitte Nielsen Once you enter the public's eye, you have to be aware that you give up a huge part of your own life.
    Brigitte Nielsen
    Danish actress, model and singer (1963 - )
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