"Vain is the hope of finding pleasure in……" — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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• The existence of these patterns [fractals] challenges us to study forms that Euclid leaves aside as being formless, to investigate… — Benoit Mandelbrot
• When everybody in the world loves one another, then the weak will not be overpowered by the strong, the few… — Motsi Mabuse
• The arts are neglected because they are based on perception, and perception is disdained because it is not assumed to… — Rudolf Arnheim
• One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdained For thee to disdain… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
• A poet, to whom no one cruel and imposing listens, / Disdained by senates, whispers to your dust, — Carolyn Kizer
• Our country asserts for itself the glory of being the freest upon the surface of the globe... but one dark… — James Forten
• Everything was a trap: women, drugs, whiskey, wine, scotch, beer - even beer - cigars, and cigarettes. Traps: Work or… — Charles Bukowski
• Free verse seemed democratic because it offered freedom of access to writers. And those who disdained free verse would always… — James Fenton
• See the mountains kiss high Heaven And the waves clasp one another; No sister-flower would be forgiven If it disdained… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
• And of course these days I feel like there is a nation of us - displaced southerners and children of… — Dorothy Allison
• If I want to dislike women, I should be allowed to. As it happens, I love them. Women to me… — Sebastian Horsley
• As a candidate, Obama disdained the game of politics, a self-conscious contrast to all the tireless political athletes named Clinton. — Nancy Gibbs

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