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There are things that music can do that language could never do, that painting could never do, or sculpture. Music is capable of going directly… — Marsha Norman
Increase in the wealth per capita fosters democracy; but the latter, at least according to what we have been able to observe up to now,… — Vilfredo Pareto
Hollywood films are alienating to the spectator because they use too much dialogue, too much explication and leave no space for the viewer. They depress… — Bruno Dumont
Carving is a source of joy to the artist. . . . To attack the raw material, gradually to extract a shape out of it… — Aristide Maillol
You will find that you cannot do without politicians. They are a necessary evil in this day and time. You may not like getting money… — Huey Long
But some natives--most natives in the world--cannot go anywhere. They are too poor. They are too poor to go anywhere. They are too poor to… — Jamaica Kincaid
We live in an extraordinary time. We are caught up in a pace of social and technological change that makes our work, our business and… — Fernando Flores
It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its… — Albert J. Nock
Since the State thrives on what it expropriates, the general decline in production that it induces by its avarice foretells its own doom. Its source… — Frank Chodorov
We know next to nothing with any certainty about Pythagoras, except that he was not really called Pythagoras. The name by which he is known… — Daniel Tammet
My elaboration of the story always conforms to the reality at its source. It is always close to the world, the life, the reality it… — Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski
God is the source of my supply. His riches flow to me freely, copiously, and abundantly. All my financial and other needs are met at… — Joseph Murphy
We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common… — Alfred de Vigny
Woman possesses the cosmic force of an element, an invincible force of destruction, like nature's. She is, in herself alone, all nature! Being the matrix… — Octave Mirbeau
I believe that with the help of foreign countries - and under that condition only, because they have no other source of financing - the… — Eduard Shevardnadze
Movement, change, light, growth and decay are the lifeblood of nature, the energies that I I try to tap through my work. I need the… — Andy Goldsworthy
For me looking, touching, material, place and form are all inseparable from the resulting work. It is difficult to say where one stops and another… — Andy Goldsworthy
Mercy is a source of life because we breathe our own spirits through it into the lives of others. — Eugene Kennedy
The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind. — Nigel Calder
We are not entirely sure of the meaning of all of the symbolic stones and their placement. Neither Joseph Smith nor Brigham Young said too… — Loren C. Dunn

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