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Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. Never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.
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Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity.
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Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
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Football strategy does not originate in a scrimmage: it is useless to expect solutions in a political campaign.
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For me, the heyday was in 1959. It was before the Ferus Gallery moved across the street, in the days when Ed Kienholz and Walter Hopps ran it. At that time, art was taken very seriously in terms of being an artist, and not as a profession.
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Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.
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Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.
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Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
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He that doth not as other men do, but endeavoureth that which ought to be done, shall thereby rather incur peril than preservation; for who so laboreth to be sincerely perfect and good shall necessarily perish, living among men that are generally evil.
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He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.
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Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.
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Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for love or hatred; also to choose such an opportunity for writing as it may be lawful to think what they will, and write what they think, which is a rare happiness of the time.
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History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it.
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I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.
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I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.
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I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
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