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Lewis Hyde has 18 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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We are each born into a situation-a particular body (its race, sex, health...), a set of ancestors, a community, a nation-and born…
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An essential portion of any artist’s labor is not creation so much as invocation. Part of the work cannot be made, it…
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The passage into mystery always refreshes. If, when we work, we can look once a day upon the face of mystery, then…
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All that we make and do is shaped by the communities and traditions that contain us, not to mention by money, power,…
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For the slow labor of realizing a potential gift the artist must retreat to those Bohemias, halfway between the slums and the…
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Unlike the sale of a commodity, the giving of a gift tends to establish a relationship between the parties involved. When gifts…
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What is it about a work of art, even when it is bought and sold in the market, that makes us distinguish…
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True citizens are not the audience of their government, nor its consumers; they are its makers.
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Uncovering secrets is apocalyptic in the simple sense (the Greek root means ‘an uncovering’). In this case, it lifts the shame covers.…
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The gift moves towards the empty place. As it turns in its circle it turns towards him who has been empty-handed the…
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Art does not organize parties, nor is it the servant or colleague of power. Rather, the work of art becomes a political…
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We forgive when we give up attachment to our wounds.
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More and more of out colleagues fail to understand our work because of the high specialization of research problems. We must not…
— Theobald Smith
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Let there be no compromise on the question of extending slavery. If there be, all our labor is lost, and, ere long,…
— Abraham Lincoln
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We ordinary people must forge our own beauty. We must set fire to the greyness of our labor with the art of…
— Kenji Miyazawa
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We put our love where we have put our labor.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To love life through our labor is to be intimate with life's inmost secrets.
— Khalil Gibran
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We spend more time working for our labor-saving machines than they do working for us.
— Edward Abbey
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Our labor unions are not narrow, self-seeking groups. They have raised wages, shortened hours, and provided supplemental benefits. Through collective bargaining and…
— John F. Kennedy
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I need not print a line, nor conjure with the painter's tools to prove myself an artist ... Whilst in other spheres…
— J. D. Sedding
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The passage into mystery always refreshes. If, when we work, we can look once a day upon the face of mystery, then…
— Lewis Hyde
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I'm not looking for a battle with anybody, neither the council nor our labor partners.
— Antonio Villaraigosa
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May we soon enjoy the fruits of our labor in a peaceful and united Germany.
— Walter Ulbricht
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To get up in the morning & do the monumental tasks that face us, our labor is best fueled by love.
— Cornel West
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