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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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Architecture, like dress, is an exercise in good manners, and good manners involve the habit of skillful insincerity - the habit of…
— Roger Scruton
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Keep hoping to see the light in her eyes. Even knowing it'll mean she's saying good-bye.
— Karen Marie Moning
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Saying Good-bye to the God of Disease (1) Mauve waters and green mountains are nothing when the great ancient doctor Hua To…
— Mao Zedong
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Then he exploded. "No!" he said. That familiar injunction. I'd heard it so many times. "No. I cannot take this steel. It…
— Bill Buford
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Saying Good-bye to the God of Disease (2) Thousands of willow branches in a spring wind. Six hundred million of China, land…
— Mao Zedong
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This is me, Clive Anderson, saying good night. Good night.
— Clive Anderson
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One night in Tokyo we watched two Japanese businessmen saying good-night to each other after what had clearly been a long night…
— Dave Barry
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The best compliment was Ben Kingsley coming up to me, putting his hand on the back of my neck, and saying, "Good…
— Aaron Stanford
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Ultimately, it comes down to taste. It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done…
— Steve Jobs
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Even when things are at their worst, there's a little voice in your head saying, 'Good story!'
— Salman Rushdie
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I guess that's what saying good-bye is always like--like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do…
— Lauren Oliver
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But after I got them to leave and shut the door and turned off the light it wasn't any good. It was…
— Ernest Hemingway
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