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In violence, we forget who we are
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A good deal of education consists of unlearning-the breaking of bad habits as with a tennis serve.
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In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but…
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The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at…
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Others are to us like the characters in fiction, eternal and incorrigible; the surprises they give us turn out in the end…
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Modern neurosis began with the discoveries of Copernicus. Science made men feel small by showing him that the earth was not the…
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The happy ending is our national belief.
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Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.
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Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed…
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An unrectified case of injustice has a terrible way of lingering, restlessly, in the social atmosphere like an unfinished question.
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Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard.
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To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause…
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
— Matthew Arnold
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That community is already in the process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy, where…
— Learned Hand
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One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive rebelliousness, the…
— Louis Kronenberger
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When I am told I am too old to do something, I try to do it right away.
— Pablo Picasso
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All my work keeps going like a pendulum; it seems to swing back to something I was involved with earlier, or it…
— Lee Krasner
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Whenever I'm asked to identify my best work, or my favorite, my answer has always been the same - 'My next one!'
— Ken Danby
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Becoming is superior to being.
— Paul Klee
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I don't follow any system. All the laws you can lay down are only so many props to be cast aside when…
— Raoul Dufy
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As an artist, it is central to be unsatisfied.
— Unknown Author
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One must never forbid oneself anything. One must also be able to go back, one must always be able to change...
— Hans Hartung
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The American people...have a stake in non-conformity. For they know that the American genius is non-conformist.
— Henry Steele Commager
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Nobody in this world was born to be the same as anyone else. Turning people into robots, especially children, is a crime…
— Jenna Miscavige Hill
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