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More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot… — Eric Hoffer
Pain, scorned by yonder gout-ridden wretch, endured by yonder dyspeptic in the midst of his dainties, borne bravely by the girl in travail. Slight thou… — Seneca the Younger
Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic… — Oscar Wilde
The national distrust of the contemplative temperament arises less from an innate Philistinism than from a suspicion of anything that cannot be counted, stuffed, framed… — Lewis H. Lapham
The misogyny that shapes every aspect of our civilization is the institutionalized form of male fear and hatred of what they have denied and therefore… — Ursula K. Le Guin
There is nothing in this world you cannot accomplish if you are willing to forfeit your deposit. — Robert Breault
When you need to be loved, you take love wherever you can find it. When you are desperate to be loved, feel love, know love,… — Iyanla Vanzant
We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented. — Walter Savage Landor
There are some who question the scale of our ambitions, who suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans. Their memories are short,… — Barack Obama
We cannot find peace if we are afraid of the windstorms of life. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
The government is huge, stupid, greedy and makes nosy, officious and dangerous intrusions into the smallest corners of life - this much we can stand.… — P.J. O'Rourke
The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every crime, to protect oneself from every criminal without being criminal… — Marquis de Sade
The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot… — George Bernard Shaw
No matter how complex global problems may seem, it is we ourselves who have given rise to them. They cannot be beyond our power to… — Daisaku Ikeda
Without environmental sustainability, economic stability and social cohesion cannot be achieved — Phil Harding
A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm… — Henry Ward Beecher
Art is a necessity - an essential part of our enlightenment process. We cannot, as a civilized society, regard ourselves as being enlightened without the… — Ken Danby
For me, art begins when there is something left that cannot be explained. — Unknown Author
At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man… — Georges Bataille
There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God. — Cyril Connolly

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