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It may be laid as an universal rule that a government which attempts more than it ought will perform less.
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To punish a man because he has committed a crime, or because he is believed, though unjustly, to have committed a crime,…
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A system in which the two great commandments are to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbor's wife.
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In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the great Abbey which has during…
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The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.
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None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth,…
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The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But is there…
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Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.
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And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose…
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Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government,…
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There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons…
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[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science.
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It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring…
— Alfred Adler
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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
— Jean Cocteau
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The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of…
— Thomas Aquinas
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[Hermogenes] despises God's law in his painting, maintains repeated marriages [almost certainly a reference to remarrying after divorce or perhaps even widowhood,…
— Tertullian
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I think you too recognize the important relationship between philosophy and art, and it is just this relationship that most painters deny.…
— Piet Mondrian
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From the physician, as emphatically the student of Nature, is expected not only an inquiry into cause, but an investigation of the…
— John Gorrie
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An artist has been defined as a neurotic who continually cures himeself with his art
— Lee Simonson
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An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to…
— James Dean
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It is the duty of the younger Negro artist . . . to change through the force of his art that old…
— Langston Hughes
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A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than…
— George Bernard Shaw
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The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it…
— Stendhal
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