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Edmund Burke
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Sophocles
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, To speak dishonorably is pardonable.
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Pablo Picasso
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
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Arthur Schnabel
When I am asked, What do you think of our audience I answer, I know two kinds of audiences only--one coughing, and one not coughing.
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Bern Williams
Sooner or later we all quote our mothers.
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Calvin Coolidge, speech, June 11, 1928
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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Jeff Melvoin
That's not painting, that's Paint-By-Numbers. That's therapy for the artistically challenged. That's what they prescribe for cretins in dayrooms.
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Erich Fromm
The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.
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Robert E. Kahn
New capabilities emerge just by virtue of having smart people with access to state-of-the-art technology.
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Oscar Wilde, A Picture of Dorian Grey - Preface
We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The pleasure of love is in loving.
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Francis Bacon
By far the best proof is experience.
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