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The world has become too full of many things, an over furnished room.

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From love one can only escape at the price of life itself; and no lessening of sorrow is worth exile from that stream of…

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The unexpectedness of life, waiting round every corner, catches even wise women unawares (...) To avoid corners altogether is, after all, to refuse to live.

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Words are the only arteries of thought our poor human body possesses.

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The past is our treasure. Its works, whether we know them or not, flourish in our lives with whatever strength they had. From it…

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On the other hand, there is a certain advantage in traveling with someone who has a reputation for shooting rather than being shot: as…

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If one were given a single window from which to look upon the changing Eastern world, it should face, I think, the road.

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Who dares to be intellectual in the presence of death?

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The Persian's mind, like his illuminated manuscripts, does not deal in perspective: two thousand years, if he happens to know anything about them, are…

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Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.

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Google has - at least at this point - maintained the line where it keeps organic results separate from the advertisements. But over time…

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I think if you can create a meaningful thing that is also an advertisement that's a pretty cool option for brands.

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I believe in advertisement and media completely. My art and my personal life are based in it. I think that the art world would…

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To measure your needs by that which is projected via mass media is a mistake that has no mercy. The average person views a…

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It is futile to assume that an initially ineffective advertisement still needs to wear in; wear-in either happens quickly or it does not happen…

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Basically, art should remain something that is complex, that has many layers, so there's always a possibility to reconsider things and have a different…

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No, no; 'tis all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow, But no man's virtue nor sufficiency…

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Unlucky people miss chance opportunities because they are too focused on looking for something else. They go to parties intent on finding their perfect…

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