Quotes with not-too-distant

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  • Henry Miller 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.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Camille Paglia 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)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bernardine Dohrn The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable... those aspects are too fundamental to ignore or gloss over.
    Bernardine Dohrn
    American law professor and activist
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  • Abraham Lincoln 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.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Alexis Carrel The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long. It separates us from reality like a fog.
    Alexis Carrel
    French surgeon, anatomist and biologist (1873 - 1944)
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  • Adam Ferguson 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.
    An Essay on the History of Civil Society I,I
    Adam Ferguson
    Scottish philosopher and historian (1723 - 1816)
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  • William Shakespeare The attempt and not the deed confounds us.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Bob Barr 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.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Bernard Berenson The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.
    Bernard Berenson
    American art historian (1865 - 1959)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken 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.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Anatole France The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Adrian Smith 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.
    Adrian Smith
    English guitarist and pianist (1957 - )
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  • Ben Stein 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.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Ludwig Van Beethoven The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, ''Thus far and no farther.''
    Ludwig Van Beethoven
    German composer (1770 - 1827)
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  • Libby Houston The base emotions Plato banned have left a radio-active and not radiant land.
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  • Bryan Magee The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers.
    Bryan Magee
    British philosopher, broadcaster, politician (1930 - 2019)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • John F. Kennedy The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible of a final military solution.
    Westpoint, 06-06-1962
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Eric Hoffer The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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