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The artist is something of an outsider in America. I have always felt that America does not value its artists, certainly not in the sense that the Europeans do.
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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 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.
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
The artists who the world has always recognized as the greatest are those with the widest sympathy. The greatness of the great artist depends precisely on the width and the intensity of his sympathy.
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The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men.
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The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.
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The atom bomb was no ''great decision.'' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.
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The attainments of the parent do not descend in the blood of his children, nor is the progress of man to be considered as a physical mutation of the species.
Source: An Essay on the History of Civil Society I,I -
The attempt and not the deed confounds us.
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The average American returning from a trip abroad likely - and understandably - assumes the contents of his or her electronic device does not come close to meeting the threshold of 'criminal' activity, such as would give a government agent the right to seize and peruse their iPad just because they are returning from a vacation.
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The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.
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The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it.
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The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.
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The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a pirate.
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The banalities of a great man pass for wit.
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The band has always stayed close to its fans and not sold out. That's a very rare thing. I can see how rare that is having been outside of the band for eight years. Maiden has integrity. I think people appreciate that.
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The banks are not lending, at least from what I see. They were so wild and reckless back in the good times that they got burned terribly.
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The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, ''Thus far and no farther.''
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The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers.
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