Quotes 2321 till 2340 of 2349.
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As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.
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Character is the result of two things: Mental attitude and the way we spend our time.
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Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.
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Cynic: A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
The Devil's Dictionary -
Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.
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Faith. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
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Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.
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God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying other things.
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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
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I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them.
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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.
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I think generally the Japanese players have more intensity in practice but generally I do the same things.
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I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves of fashion which carry the snobs and speculators; the number of true connoisseurs remains more or less the same.
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If you are going to be serving a living thing, you have to honor that living thing with some kind of care and thought and preparation to rationalize the taking of that life in some way. Where if you're just grinding up hamburger at McDonald's, I see that as a bit of an affront to living things.
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In the world we live in everything militates in favor of things that have not yet happened, of things that will never happen again.
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Memory is like a purse, if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed of a gluttonous curiosity to feed on many things, lest the greediness of the appetite of thy memory spoil the digestion thereof.
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More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.
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Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters. We have infected the pictures in museums with all our stupidities, all our mistakes, all our poverty of spirit. We have turned them into petty and ridiculous things.
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Never allow a crisis to go to waste. They are opportunities to do big things.”
Interview Wall Street Journal, 19-11-2008
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