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Matisse was very clear about saying that you have to blow your own trumpet and explain yourself, which I think has been slightly forgotten.
— Howard Hodgkin
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Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are…
— Lydia M. Child
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The time given to athletic contests and the injuries incurred on the playing field are part of the price which the English-speaking race has paid…
— Henry Cabot Lodge
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A Church which has lost its memory is in a sad state of senility.
— Henry Chadwick
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There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true…
— Annie Dillard
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There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has…
— Samuel Johnson
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But ultimately what I was impressed by during my years in government was how much the intellectual climate and the prevailing intellectual notions constrained and…
— Lawrence Summers
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Words, which are the dress of thoughts, deserve surely more care than clothes, which are only the dress of the person.
— Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
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It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
— Henry Fielding
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The heart which finds life in material wealth is usually certain to go farther and seek for more in the satisfaction of base and sullen…
— George A. Smith
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The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.
— Unknown Author
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Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons.
— Lord Byron
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All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.
— Charles Baudelaire
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When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights…
— Benjamin Harrison
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Creative genius is a divinely bestowed gift which is the coronation of the few.
— Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
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The difference between management and administration (which is what bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity.
— Robert Heller
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These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from…
— Johan Huizinga
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Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.
— Blaise Pascal
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The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for what it has not found but…
— William Ellery Channing
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Allowing our government to kill citizens compromises the deepest moral values upon which this country was conceived: the inviolable dignity of human persons.
— Helen Prejean
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