Quotes with life-and-death

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  • John Ruskin An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Mao Tse-Tung An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.
    Mao Tse-Tung
    Chinese politician (1893 - 1976)
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  • Charles Mackay An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent.
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  • Thomas Mann An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.
    Thomas Mann
    German author, critic and Nobel laureate in literature (1929) (1875 - 1955)
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  • William Faulkner An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.
    William Faulkner
    American writer (1897 - 1962)
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  • Evelyn Waugh An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
    Evelyn Waugh
    British novelist (1903 - 1966)
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  • Bridget Riley An artist's early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some of which are in conflict.
    The Eyes Mind: Collected Writings 1965-2009 (2009)
    Bridget Riley
    English painter (1931 - )
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • Simone Weil An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Carl Lewis An athlete and actor are really two different temperaments, night and day. As an athlete you really keep things out and as an actor you really bring things in.
    Carl Lewis
    American athlete (1961 - )
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  • Alberto Salazar An athlete who tells you the training is always easy and always fun simply hasn't been there. Goals can be elusive which makes the difficult journey all the more rewarding.
    Alberto Salazar
    American track coach and long-distance runner (1958 - )
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  • Albert Einstein An attempt at visualizing the Fourth Dimension: Take a point, stretch it into a line, curl it into a circle, twist it into a sphere, and punch through the sphere.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • George Bernard Shaw An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Boris Becker An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people's privacy.
    Boris Becker
    German tennis player (1967 - )
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  • Bernie S. Siegel An awareness of one's mortality can lead you to wake up and live an authentic, meaningful life.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Bill Bryson An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot of it is the hedgerows... We're reaching the point where a lot of the English countryside looks just like Iowa - just kind of open space.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Alan K. Simpson An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.
    Alan K. Simpson
    American politician (1931 - )
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  • Edgar Quinet An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.
    Edgar Quinet
    French poet, historian and politician (1803 - 1875)
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  • Samuel Butler An empty house is like a stray dog or a body from which life has departed.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Edmund Burke An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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