"A revolution was never fought, throughout history, for……" — William Powell
"A revolution was never fought, throughout history, for ideals. Revolutions were fought for much more concrete things: food, clothes, housing, and to relieve intolerable oppression. … I know of no one, outside of Patrick Henry, willing to die for an abstraction."
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13 Quotes by William Powell
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Unfortunately, or perhaps it is fortunate that I have always been forced to stand on my acting ability. I haven't…
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Power is not a material possession that can be given, it is the ability to act. Power must be taken,…
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I detest symbolic protest, as it is an outcry of weak, middle-of-the-road, liberal eunuchs. If an individual feels strongly enough…
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A government creates its own revolution. There can be no revolt without it.
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Since shotguns are not military weapons, your local sporting goods dealer will have good information about them, as long as…
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I have never gone into a picture without first studying my characterization from all angles. I make a study of…
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I do not hold that because the author did a bad job of writing the player need trump it with…
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My friends have stood by me marvelously in the ups and downs of my career. I don't believe there is…
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Dessert is probably the most important stage of the meal, since it will be the last thing your guests remember…
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Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.
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I highly recommend worrying. It is much more effective than dieting.
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Nanotechnology is manufacturing with atoms.
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More Abstraction Quotes
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Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.
— Josef Albers
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That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.
— Sarah Caldwell
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
— Paul Cezanne
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So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.
— Deepak Chopra
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Love is not some complex, mystical abstraction. It is something accessible and human that we learn through our everyday experience,…
— Leo Buscaglia
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The spiritual life is not a special career, involving abstraction from the world of things. It is a part of…
— Evelyn Underhill
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The individual is the true reality of life. A cosmos in himself, he does not exist for the State, nor…
— Emma Goldman
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The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty.
— Piet Mondrian
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Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction.
— Paul Gauguin
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The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
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Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal…
— George Boole
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It is astonishing that so simple a truth should ever have had an adversary; and it is one among a…
— Alexander Hamilton
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