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• Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature? — Charles Baudelaire
• I wouldn't live in California. All that sun makes you sterile. — Alan Alda
• Nothing is more sterile or lamentable than the man content to live within himself. — Harold Pinter
• Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy; indifference of evil is… — Elie Wiesel
• Time... is an essential requirement for effective research. An investigator may be given a palace to live in, a perfect laboratory to… — Walter Bradford Cannon
• Mathematics without natural history is sterile, but natural history without mathematics is muddled. — John Maynard Smith
• Brains, like cabbages, are beautiful-but in a different way. Cabbage heads are dumb and sterile, whereas brains are personal, intelligent and vibrant. — Carl Pfeiffer
• A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo… — Maya Angelou
• Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. — Sinclair Lewis
• The creative force in man recognizes and records these rhythms with the medium most suitable to him, the object, or the moment,… — Edward Weston
• The true wisdom of the philosopher ought to insist in enjoying everything. Yet we apply ourselves to dissecting and destroying everything that… — Eugene Delacroix

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