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• What matters most to me? To work with my model until I have it enough in me to be able to improvise, to let my hand run free.

  Henri Matisse

  Running, What Matters, Hands

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• All of life is more or less what the French would call s'imposer, to be able to create one's own terms for what one does.

  Kenneth Tynan

  Life, Doe, Term

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• And I think we'll be able to prove scientifically that other talents such as intuitive, psychic, clairvoyant and audiovoyant are very real.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Real, Thinking, Psychics

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• I hope I shall be able to make some drawings in which there is something human.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Drawing, Humanity, Humans

  Vincent van Gogh, Vincent Willem Gogh (1927). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...”

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• When I look at nature I feel as if I'll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you're working.

  Claude Monet

  Nature, Looks, Down And

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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• I've been working so hard that I'm exhausted... I feel I won't be able to do without a few weeks' rest, so I'm going off to see the sea.

  Claude Monet

  Sea, Relaxation, Exhausted

  Claude Monet (1999). “Monet by himself: paintings, drawings, pastels, letters”

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• As you may know, KFC is under worldwide pressure to eliminate its cruelest abuses of chickens, such as cutting the beaks off baby birds; breeding chickens to grow so large, so quickly that many suffer crippling injuries; and slitting the birds' throats or dropping them into tanks of scalding-hot water while they are still alive and able to feel pain.

  Pamela Anderson

  Baby, Pain, Cutting

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• Historically in restaurants, the service staff is awarded significantly higher wages than cooks and other staff who prepare the food on which a restaurant's reputation is based. The gap in pay is so great that it is becoming increasingly difficult for young cooks to pursue their passion at the rate of pay restaurants are able to afford.

  Thomas Keller

  Passion, Cooking, Gaps

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• Nobody says, hey men should not drink. It's all about women must dress differently, women must walk differently, women must drink differently. Why are we not able to hold men to account for this behavior?

  Jon Stewart

  Men, Dresses, Hey

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• Somewhere in my wildest childhood I must have done something right. Being able to make a boyhood dream come true is one thing, but to have a kid come along and thrill his dad like Brett Hull has thrilled me over his career is too much for one guy to handle.

  Bobby Hull

  Sports, Dream, Dad

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• Very beautiful situations have developed using chaos as part of the enlightened approach. There is chaos of all kinds developing all the time... If you are trying to stop those situations, you are looking for external means of liberating yourself, another answer. But if we are able to look into the basic situation, then chaos is the inspiration, confusion is the inspiration.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Beautiful, Inspiration, Mean

  Chogyam Trungpa (2008). “The Pocket Chögyam Trungpa”, p.15, Shambhala Publications

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• The meditator develops new depths of insight through direct communication with the reality of the phenomenal world... He or she is able to see not only the absence of complexity, the absence of duality, but the stoneness of stone and the waterness of water. One sees things precisely as they are, not merely in the physical sense, but with awareness of their spiritual significance.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Spiritual, Communication, Reality

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• Being goal directed is not enough to conquer your enemy. To achieve your goal you need to know and be able to utilize all the resources available to you. This includes the knowledge of all those available to you as well as using the physical resources and those who control them.

  Frederick The Great

  Goal, Enemy, Needs

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• Concern for one?s own welfare and prosperity should not blind one to one?s social obligations or spiritual destiny?.A society in which the individuals are concerned only about material welfare will not be able to achieve harmony and peace.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Spiritual, Destiny, Blind

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• Contemporary man has rationalized the myths, but he has not been able to destroy them.

  Octavio Paz

  Men, Myth, Contemporary

  Octavio Paz (1985). “The labyrinth of solitude ; The other Mexico ; Return to the labyrinth of solitude ; Mexico and the United States ; The philanthropic ogre”, Grove/Atlantic

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• I fully endorse the millennial goals to make (hunger) history, ... Those are big goals, but it's do-able.

  George McGovern

  Goal, Millennials, Hunger

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• To be able to translate the customs, ideas and appearance of my times as I see them - in a word, to create a living art - this has been my aim.

  Gustave Courbet

  Art, Ideas, Culture

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• We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought -- that is being educated.

  Edith Hamilton

  Running, Teaching, Mad

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• A fat lot of good it would do if I told you that Titian's courtesans make you want to caress them. Some day you'll see the Titians for yourself, and if they have no effect on you, then you don't understand the first thing about painting. And I wouldn't be able to help you.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Understanding, Firsts, Want

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• I have always enjoyed do-it-yourself projects, .. Being in a position to actually help design and bring tools to market is an incredible opportunity. Being able to fund charities as a result is phenomenal.

  Tim Allen

  Opportunity, Design, Tools

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• I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language.

  Harry Mathews

  Dream, France, Fluency

  "Agent Provocateur: Harry Matthews with Johannah Rogers". The Brooklyn Rail Interview, brooklynrail.org. June 1, 2005.

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• What have we done to our images? What have we done to our embarrassed landscapes? I have said this before and will repeat it again as long as I am able to talk: if we do not develop adequate images we will die out like dinosaurs.

  Werner Herzog

  Long, Done, Adequate

  "Herzog on Herzog". Book by Werner Herzog, 2002.

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• If we are able to meet these two requirements - regularity in meditation and leading a good life in society, day-to-day a good life - then nothing would be unattainable by us.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Good Life, Two, Meditation

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1986). “Thirty Years Around the World: 1957-1964”, Stichting Drukkerij En Uitgeverij Mvu

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• Out of doing all that experimentation with sound I decided I wanted to do it with live musicians. To take repetition, take music fragments and make it live. Musicians would be able to play it and create this kind of abstract fabric of sound.

  Terry Riley

  Play, Musician, Sound

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• Thanks to being profoundly rooted in Christ, he was able to bear a burden which transcends merely human abilities.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Thankfulness, Bears, Thanks

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