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There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch.…
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If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.
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It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to…
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The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar…
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A cult is a religion with no political power.
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Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.
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Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting.
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I never forget. I never forgive. I can wait. I find it very easy to harbor a grudge. I have scores to…
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On Wall Street he and a few others - how many? three hundred, four hundred, five hundred? had become precisely that... Masters…
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The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.
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Even hostile parodies admit from the start that the target has a distinct voice.
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God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New…
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There is, of course, a legitimate argument for some limitation upon immigration. We no longer need settlers for virgin lands, and our…
— John F. Kennedy
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Prose of the World is an enormously compelling and vivid study. The result is an ambitious, timely, and eloquent account of the…
— Rebecca L. Walkowitz
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A championship contender in the early twentieth century needed charisma and a knack for cultivating sponsorship, and Rubinstein was the epitome of…
— Garry Kasparov
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Nothing could have been more obvious to the people of the early twentieth century than the rapidity with which war was becoming…
— H.G. Wells
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Early-twentieth-century abstraction is art's version of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. It's the idea that changed everything everywhere: quickly, decisively, for good.
— Jerry Saltz
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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, old people in America had prayed, "Please God, don't let me look poor." In…
— Tom Wolfe
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All three of the great waves of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century European immigrants to America innovated.
— Malcolm Gladwell
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