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I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the way things are… — Robert Rauschenberg
The colored planes, as much by position and dimension as by the greater value given to color, plastically express only relationships and not forms. — Piet Mondrian
Every song I ever wrote, I wrote to be heard. So, if I was given a choice that 50 years from now I could either… — Ian MacKaye
The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ridicule can do much, for instance embitter the existence of young talents; but one thing is not given to it, to put a stop permanently… — Aron Nimzowitsch
I am still every age that I have been. Because I was once a child, I am always a child. Because I was once a… — Madeleine L'Engle
I think you have a moral responsibility when you've been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of… — N. Scott Momaday
He who travels much has this advantage over others – that the things he remembers soon become remote, so that in a short time they… — Giacomo Leopardi
And what physicians say about disease is applicable here: that at the beginning a disease is easy to cure but difficult to diagnose; but as… — Niccolo Machiavelli
To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an… — Simone de Beauvoir
I often wonder what my life would be like without the use of a library. Throughout my education and career, public and private libraries have… — David Horowitz
It is the duty of every good officer to obey any orders given him by his commander-in-chief. — Nathan Hale
ALL THOUGHTS WHICH HAVE BEEN EMOTIONALIZED, (given feeling) AND MIXED WITH FAITH, begin immediately to translate themselves into their physical equivalent or counterpart. — Napoleon Hill
We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle. What I mean is that what composes an event… — Alain Badiou
I’m still me, Malala. The important thing is God has given me my life. — Malala Yousafzai
Mr Bush, Mr. Blair and now Mr Brown's sense of human rights precludes our people's right to their God-given resources, which in their view must… — Robert Mugabe
We spoke and acted as if, given the opportunity for self-government, we would quickly create utopias. Instead injustice, even tyranny, is rampant. — Julius Nyerere
The way I work, typically, I do everything at the very last minute. Even if I was given two months, I'd do it in the… — Ayumi Hamasaki
Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became… — L. Frank Baum
How you use the opportunities your given to affect the world around you will determine the legacy you leave behind. — Tony Dungy
You see what a poor sinner I am, and how unworthy to possess what was given me; for that reason it has been taken away. — Robert E. Lee
The only way to find out anything about what kinds of lives people led in any given period is to tunnel into their records and… — John Dos Passos
Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue. — Sinclair Lewis
One usually dies because one is alone, or because one has got into something over one's head. One often dies because one does not have… — Giovanni Falcone

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