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  • Lewis Mumford A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.
    Lewis Mumford
    American social philosopher (1895 - 1990)
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  • Horace Mann A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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  • Vilayat Inayat Khan A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less.
    Vilayat Inayat Khan
    Teacher of meditation and of the traditions of Sufism (1882 - 1927)
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  • William Shakespeare A plague of sighing and grie blows a man up like a bladder.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Gloria Steinem A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Anthony Burgess All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else.
    Anthony Burgess
    British writer, criticus (1917 - 1993)
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  • John Dryden All human things are subject to decay, and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Derek Jarman All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity.
    Derek Jarman
    British movie maker, artist, writer (1942 - 1994)
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  • John Hay All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.
    John Hay
    American politician (1838 - 1905)
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  • Bryan Ferry And Mary J. Blige, she's got all these fur coats and hats and stuff. She's good; I like her.
    Bryan Ferry
    English singer and songwriter (1945 - )
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  • Jean Arp Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.
    Jean Arp
    German-French sculptor, painter, poet (1886 - 1966)
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  • Akhenaton As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.
    Akhenaton
    Egyptian King, Monotheist (1372 - 1337)
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  • William James As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy or justice, are folly when we are dealing with human crocodiles and boa-constrictors.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Alfred E. Smith Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you.
    Alfred E. Smith
    American politician (1873 - 1944)
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  • Agnes Smedley But he like my mother, had certainly come to know that those who work the most do not make the most money. It was the fault of the rich, it seemed, but just how he did not know.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Childhood: The period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Pablo Picasso Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
    Pablo Picasso
    Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (1881 - 1973)
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  • Alighieri Dante Consider your breed; you were not made to live like beasts, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
    Alighieri Dante
    Durante (Dante) degli Alighieri, Italian philosopher and poet (1265 - 1321)
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  • Andre Breton Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue.
    Andre Breton
    French writer (1896 - 1966)
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