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Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a fortune at hand,…
— Clara Barton
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A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through the sleeve and passing through his chest from shoulder…
— Clara Barton
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Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.
— John Quincy Adams
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I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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A country like Belgium, or socialist countries in central Europe spend more money on art education than the United States, which is a really puzzling…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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We glorify the Holy Ghost together with the Father and the Son, from the conviction that He is not separated from the Divine Nature; for…
— Saint Basil
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In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the…
— Saint Basil
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Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
— Frederic Bastiat
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The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.
— Frederic Bastiat
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Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well…
— Mary Catherine Bateson
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An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same…
— Charles Baudelaire
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The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.
— Charles Baudelaire
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Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.
— Charles Baudelaire
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There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy baby hanging from the breast.
— Charles Baudelaire
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This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.
— Charles Baudelaire
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The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.
— Charles Baudelaire
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Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
— Scott Adams
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Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.
— Charles Baudelaire
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Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the…
— Charles Baudelaire
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