"Ideas should be neutral. But man animates them……" — Emile M. Cioran

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• I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature. — Paul Cezanne
• Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it. — Seneca the Younger
• Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him… — Samuel Johnson
• Our faith is well founded; but it is necessary that this faith become part of our lives. A great effort… — Pope Benedict XVI
• Nature is the system of laws established by the Creator for the existence of things and for the succession of… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
• A little consideration of what takes place around us every day would show us that a higher law than that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Genius is that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates. — Samuel Johnson
• Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.… — James Boswell
• The first question that offers itself is, whether the general form and aspect of the government be strictly republican? It… — James Madison
• The volumes, the surfaces, the lines-in one word, the structures that build a tectonic construction-do not represent the whole picture:… — Unknown Author
• Just as the soul animates the body, so, in a way, meaning breathes life into a word. — John of Salisbury
• I love the combination of smartness, pain, and what one might call conscious postmodern trashiness in this book: a version… — Alicia Ostriker

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