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Ambrose Bierce
Painting The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.
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Johann von Goethe
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.
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G. K. Chesterton
Literature is a luxury fiction is a necessity.
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Virgil
They are able because they think they are able.
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J. B. Yeats
Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint.
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Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do
Do not run away; let go. Do not seek, for it will come when least expected.
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Kahlil Gibran
All that spirits desire, spirits attain.
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Unknown
A stitch in time would have confused Einstein.
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Publilius Syrus
Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last.
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Harry Hershfield
New York: where everyone mutinies but no one deserts.
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Rudolph Rocker
Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of expression is dead dogma, its physical form brute force. And this unintelligence of its objectives sets its stamp on its supporters also and renders them stupid and brutal, even when they were originally endowed with the best of talents. One who is constantly striving to force everything into a mechanical order at last becomes a machine himself and loses all human feeling.
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