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States are more like people than they are like anything else: they exist by purpose, reason, suffering, and joy. And peace between…
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Architecture, like dress, is an exercise in good manners, and good manners involve the habit of skillful insincerity - the habit of…
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Sanctions make a substantial contribution to power based on privation, and they have never hurt a single despot in the whole history…
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There’s a real question as to what beauty is and why it’s important to us. Many pseudo-philosophers try to answer these questions…
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State solutions are imposed from above; they are often without corrective devices, and cannot easily be reversed on the proof of failure.…
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Beauty is assailed from two directions - by the cult of ugliness in the arts, and by the cult of utility in…
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The conservative response to modernity is to embrace it, but to embrace it critically, in full consciousness that human achievements are rare…
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The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision…
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The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy.
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In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel.
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Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it does not matter.
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Private property is one of the best institutions which has ever evolved, to protect us from the bullying of others.
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My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered…
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Trust perfected is prayer perfected. Trust looks to receive the thing asked for and gets it. Trust is not a belief that…
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Love has been taken away from the poets, and has been brought within the domain of true science. It may prove to…
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We just want Jews to be perfected, as they say.
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This perfected body can be compared to a mirror, and the human spirit to the sun. Nevertheless, if the mirror breaks, the…
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Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to…
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The woman is perfected. Her dead Body wears the smile of accomplishment.
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In your training, do not be in a hurry, for it takes a minimum of ten years to master the basics and…
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