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• The Canadian painter A. Y. Jackson noted that 'failure of sight' was a tiresome problem. He meant we should be able to look at our work-in-progress as if it were previously unseen.

  Robert Genn

  Sight, Progress, Looks

  Robert Genn (1996). “The Painter's Keys: A Seminar with Robert Genn”, p.21, Studio Beckett Publications

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• The bird of truth would not be able to fly if it weren't for the air of lies we breathe.

  Eugene J. Martin

  Lying, Air, Bird

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• It is important to know: 1) You are OK just the way you are. You need a strong stomach, a tough hide, and to be able to take rejection well. 2) Do your homework. Check out galleries. Don't just walk in with your work. Be as professional as you can. 3)... there is a gallery for everybody.

  Kay WalkingStick

  Strong, Rejection, Important

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• A muse comes down from Mount Olympus and changes my attitude, cheering me up - it's an inner intuition, suddenly giving a breakthrough to be able to move ahead.

  Robert Bateman

  Cheer, Attitude, Moving

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• The gods can either take away evil from the world and will not, or, being willing to do so, cannot; or they neither can nor will, or lastly, they are both able and willing. If they have the will to remove evil and cannot, then they are not omnipotent. If they can, but will not, than they are not benevolent. If they are neither able nor willing, then they are neither omnipotent nor benevolent. Lastly, if they are both able and willing to annihilate evil, how does it exist?

  Epicurus

  Atheist, Evil, Doe

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• I hope the time is not far off when I shall be able to unite all the wise and educated men of all the countries and establish a uniform regime based on the principles of the Quran which alone are true and which alone can lead men to happiness.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Wise, Country, Army

  "Correspondance Napoleon" edited by Henri Plon, Vol. 4, No. 3148, (p. 420), 1861.

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• The child was diseased at birth, stricken with a hereditary ill that only the most vital men are able to shake off. I mean poverty-the most deadly and prevalent of all diseases.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Children, Mean, Men

  Travis Bogard, Eugene O'Neill (1988). “Contour in Time: The Plays of Eugene O'Neill”, p.28, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• I am imperfect in many things, nevertheless I want my brethren and kinsfolk to know my nature so that they may be able to perceive my soul's desire.

  Saint Patrick

  Character, Angel, Soul

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• It means being able to resist the urge for immediate gratification and opt for the course of action that will pay off later.

  Ann Landers

  Mean, Maturity, Pay

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• Maturity is the ability to control anger and settle differences without violence or destruction. The mature person can face unpleasantness, frustration, discomfort and defeat without collapsing or complaining. He/she knows he cannot have everything his/her own way every time. He/she is able to defer to circumstances, to other people-and to time. He/she knows when to compromise and is not too proud to do so.

  Ann Landers

  Maturity, Frustration, Mature Person

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• All I want is for everyone to finally be able to like their life smiling.

  Kim Su-mi

  Drama, Want

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• It is indeed surprising that a man inspite of his belief in the Fire of Jahannum is still able to laugh, and inspite of his belief in Maut he is able to be happy. Inspite of believing in the Reckoning, he commits evil deeds. Inspite of believing in Taqdeer, he grieves. Inspite of observing the world with its changes, he feels contented with it. Inspite of believing in Jannat, he refrains from righteous deeds.

  Moses

  Wisdom, Believe, Islamic

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• Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. It takes a lot of hard work to make something simple, to truly understand the underlying challenges and come up with elegant solutions. [...] It's not just minimalism or the absence of clutter. It involves digging through the depth of complexity. To be truly simple, you have to go really deep. [...] You have to deeply understand the essence of a product in order to be able to get rid of the parts that are not essential.

  Steve Jobs

  Hard Work, Simple, Order

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• I always believe in going hard at everything, whether it is Latin or mathematics, boxing or football, but at the same time I want to keep the sense of proportion. It is never worth while to absolutely exhaust one's self or to take big chances unless for an adequate object. I want you to keep in training the faculties which would make you, if the need arose, able to put your last ounce of pluck and strength into a contest. But I do not want you to squander these qualities.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Sports, Football, Latin

  Theodore Roosevelt (1995). “A Bully Father: Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children”, Random House Incorporated

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• A true master of politics is able to calculate, down to the smallest fraction, the advantages to which he may put his very faults.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Power, May, Politics

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• A people that is able to say everything, becomes able to do everything. The crowd which follows me with admiration, would run with the same eagerness were I marching to the Guillotine.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Running, People, Crowds

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• A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Freedom, War, People

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• Alpha Phi Alpha, the oldest of Negro Fraternities, with all of its members presumably far above the average American and having a good practical understanding of the salient factors involved in the Negro's problem, and which a membership upwards of eight thousand men, should be able to take into their hands the leadership in the Negro's struggle for status.

  Jewel

  Struggle, Men, Eight

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• I asked [my doctors] if I'd be able to play singles tennis and they said I could. That made me very happy since I haven't played in five years.

  Walter Cronkite

  Doctors, Years, Play

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• I suppose I could have sat back and pitied myself. For a time I wondered if I'd ever be able to go on to a stage and perform again. After a couple of weeks I began to feel I could fight my way back to health if I put my mind to it. I thought to myself: 'Pity never did anybody any good. Go on. Patsy, show 'em what you can do'

  Patsy Cline

  Couple, Fighting, Mind

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• Long ago it was said that 'one half of the world does not know how the other half lives.' That was true then. It did not know because it did not care. The half that was on top cared little for the struggles, and less for the fate, of those who were underneath, so long as it was able to hold them there and keep its own seat.

  Jacob August Riis

  Struggle, Fate, Long Ago

  Jacob August Riis (1914). “How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York”

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• The ruling class is the rich. . . . And those people are so able to manipulate our democracy that they really control the democracy.

  Walter Cronkite

  Class, People, Political

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• Fashion has become a joke. The designers have forgotten that there are women inside the dresses. Most women dress for men and want to be admired. But they must also be able to move, to get into a car without bursting their seams! Clothes must have a natural shape.

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Moving, Men

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• The reason that Apple is able to create products like iPad is because we always try to be at the intersection of technology and liberal arts, to be able to get the best of both.

  Steve Jobs

  Art, Technology, Ipads

  "Steve Jobs Through The Years" by Mike Isaac, www.wired.com. October 5, 2011.

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• English Canada must clearly understand that, whatever is said or done, Québec is, today and forever, a distinct society, that is free and able to assume [the control of] its destiny and its development.

  Robert Bourassa

  Destiny, Forever, Done

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