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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Are wars... anything but the means whereby a nation's problems are set, where creation is stimulated - there you have adventure. But there is no adventure in heads-or-tails, in betting that the toss will come out of life or death. War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Bret Easton Ellis Are you as much of a criminal if you don't act when there's a crime taking place in front of you as you are one of the participants? That was something that I was thinking about a lot because there are many moments in 'Less Than Zero' where horrific things happen and Clay could do something about them, but his passivity stops him.
    Bret Easton Ellis
    American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director (1964 - )
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  • Beth Ditto Aretha Franklin was a teenage mom, a musician who came from an incredibly Christian background, but there was a lot of love, which is really inspiring in a feminist way.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Samuel Butler Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Buzz Aldrin Armstrong described the lunar surface as 'beautiful.' I thought to myself, 'It's not really beautiful. It's magnificent that we're here, but what a desolate place we are visiting.'
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Anna H. Shaw Around me I saw women overworked and underpaid, doing men's work at half men's wages, not because their work was inferior, but because they were women.
    Anna H. Shaw
     
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  • Ban Ki-moon Around the world, climate change is an existential threat - but if we harness the opportunities inherent in addressing climate change, we can reap enormous economic benefits.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Barbra Streisand Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • Arthur Boyd Art doesn't alter things. It points things out, but it doesn't alter them. It can't, no matter what a painter wants to do.
    Arthur Boyd
    Australian painter (1920 - 1999)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Henry Miller Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Günter Grass Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.
    Günter Grass
    German writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1999) (1927 - 2015)
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  • Ben Elliot Art is the ultimate luxury good, but one that can make you think, give a you a blast of beauty and enhance your life. Even if the work's made of plasticine.
    Ben Elliot
    British politician (1975 - )
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  • T. S. Eliot Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Alberto Giacometti Artistically I am still a child with a whole life ahead of me to discover and create. I want something, but I won't know what it is until I succeed in doing it.
    Alberto Giacometti
    Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker (1901 - 1966)
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  • Alexander Theroux Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away?
    Alexander Theroux
    American novelist and poet
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  • Ezra Pound As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, when the hot water gives out or goes tepid, so is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, o my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Bernhard Schlink As a citizen and someone who was a judge on the constitutional law court for 18 years, I feel whenever I can raise my voice with the hope of being heard I need to do it, but I wouldn't assign a special wisdom and responsibility to writers.
    Bernhard Schlink
    German lawyer, academic, and novelist (1944 - )
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  • Michel de Certeau As a first approximation, I define ''belief'' not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.
    Michel de Certeau
    French writer
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  • Carl Hagelin As a kid, I was so short, it was tough for me to keep up with the taller guys. I always had quick feet, but I just didn't have any power, really, as a kid.
    Carl Hagelin
    Swedish ice hockey player (1988 - )
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