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• Suffering for your art is most definitely overrated but I do get a certain, I don't know, satisfaction from being able to deal with my paranoia and insecurity.

  Beth Gibbons

  Art, Insecurity, Suffering

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• There can be theory but, you know, the problem is you've got to be able to test it. So theories are one thing, testing is another.

  Brian Schmidt

  Tests, Problem, Theory

  "Life, the universe and everything". "Q&A" with Tony Jones, www.abc.net.au. June 18, 2012.

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• Painting is not what my life is about, but it is very important to me, and I am very lucky to be able to give some time to it.

  Margrethe II of Denmark

  Giving, Important, Lucky

  "Exclusive - Bones and Landscapes Inspire Danish Queen's Art". Interview with John Acher, www.reuters.com. January 26, 2012.

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• I hope I will be able to paint as long as I live.

  Margrethe II of Denmark

  Long, Denmark, Paint

  "Exclusive - Bones and Landscapes Inspire Danish Queen's Art". Interview with John Acher, www.reuters.com. January 26, 2012.

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• When men are able to influence so many others through their life and their example, they do not die.

  Aleida Guevara

  Men, Example, Influence

  "The X-Philes" by Sandy Balfour, www.theguardian.com.

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• I've built many doorways and set out traps so that no one will be able to reach this place. That's what the angel said. This is a castle of darkness for the angel and I alone. Only within this yielding gloom can I lament the misfortune that has rained down all around me, only here am I permitted to scorn and pity the ugliness, the filthiness of how I smile and pretend at being pure in the light of day.

  Mizuki Nomura

  Angel, Light, Darkness

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• To you, being rich might mean owning a goat farm in South Carolina. For your best friend, it might mean being able to start her own business selling wine over the Internet. Whatever the case, youre probably not motivated by the money itself, but by what the money could let you be and do.

  J.D. Roth

  Mean, Wine, South Carolina

  J. D. Roth (2010). “Your Money: The Missing Manual”, p.24, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• Certain countries long ago succeeded where the U.S. has failed in commercializing their air traffic control systems, putting them in the hands of private or quasi-private operators able to raise capital, charge fees, and invest in growth, free of meddling by congressional pork barons. You want a drone-friendly air traffic control system? This is the place to start. Our FAA isn't blindly anti-drone but simply marooned in a system that still needs thousands of eyeballs gazing at radar terminals and out of cockpit windshields.

  Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.

  Country, Air, Long Ago

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• If men were able to be convinced that art is a precise advance knowledge of how to cope with the psychic and social consequences of the next technology, would they all become artist? Or would they begin a careful translation of new art forms into social navigation charts? I am curious to know what would happem if art were suddenly seen for what it is, namely, exact information of how to rearrange one's psyche in order to anticipate the next blow from our own extended faculties.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Blow, Technology

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• Humility is often merely feigned submissiveness assumed in order to subject others, an artifice of pride which stoops to conquer, and although pride has a thousand ways of transforming itself it is never so well disguised and able to take people in as when masquerading as humility.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Humility, Pride, Order

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• The auspices for philosophy are bad if, when proceeding ostensibly on the investigation of truth, we start saying farewell to all uprightness, honesty and sincerity, and are intent only on passing ourselves off for what we are not. We then assume, like those three sophists [Fichte, Schelling and Hegel], first a false pathos, then an affected and lofty earnestness, then an air of infinite superiority, in order to impose where we despair of ever being able to convince.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Honesty, Philosophy, Farewell

  "Parerga and Paralipomena" by Arthur Schopenhauer, translated by E. Payne, Vol. 1, (p. 22), 1974.

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• The Christian religion seems to have fulfilled its great biological purpose, in so far as we are able to judge. It has led human thought to independence, and has lost its significance, therefore, to a yet undetermined extent.... It seems to me that we might still make use in some way of its form of thought, and especially of its great wisdom of life, which for two thousand years has proven to be particularly efficacious.

  Carl Jung

  Christian, Years, Two

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• I write as clearly as I am able to. I sometimes tackle ideas and notions that are relatively complex, and it is very difficult to be sure that I am conveying them in the best way. Anyone who goes beyond cliche phrases and cliche ideas will have this trouble.

  R. A. Lafferty

  Writing, Ideas, Phrases

  "The Alien Critic" Journal, August 1973.

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• Man is extraordinarily clever in preventing himself from being happy; it would seem that the less able he is to endure misfortune the more apt he is to attach himself to it.

  Andre Gide

  Clever, Men, Endure

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• God is able to do more than man can understand.

  Thomas a Kempis

  God, Men, God Is Able

  Saint Augustine of Hippo, Saint Augustine, Thomas A'Kempis (2006). “The Confessions of St. Augustine, Including the Imitation of Christ”, p.378, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It has been said, and only half in jest, that a tough, professionally led union is a great force for improving management performance. It forces the manager to think about what he is doing and to be able to explain his actions and behavior.

  Peter Drucker

  Thinking, Half, Unions

  "Management: Tasks, Responsibilities". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1973.

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• Keep the boss aware. Bosses, after all, are held responsible by their own bosses for the performance of their subordinates. They must be able to say: "I know what Anne [or John] is trying to do."

  Peter Drucker

  Boss, Trying, Responsible

  "Managing for the Future: The 1990's and Beyond". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1992.

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• What we are able to judge with feeling is very little; the rest is all prejudice and complaisance.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Judging, Feelings, Prejudice

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• To be sure, the doctrine of a personal God interfering with natural events could never be refuted, in the real sense, by science, for this doctrine can always take refuge in those domains in which scientific knowledge has not yet been able to set foot.

  Albert Einstein

  Truth, Real, Dark

  "Science, Philosophy and Religion, A Symposium" by Albert Einstein, www.einsteinandreligion.com. 1941.

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• Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character; it becomes lack of power to act with courage proportionate to danger. All this must lead to the destruction of our intellectual life unless the danger summons up strong personalities able to fill the lukewarm and discouraged with new strength and resolution.

  Albert Einstein

  Strong, Attitude, Character

  Speech made in honor of Thomas Mann, January 1939.

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• Seeing clearly within himself and always able to dodge around the ends of any position, including his own, Shaw assumed from the start the dual role of prophet and gadfly. To his contemporaries it appeared frivolous and contradictory to perform as both superman and socialist, sceptic and believer, legalist and heretic, high-brow and mob-orator. But feeling the duty to teach as well as to mirror mankind, Shaw did not accept himself as a contradictory being.

  Jacques Barzun

  Mirrors, Feelings, Gadflies

  "Bernard Shaw in Twilight" by Jacques Barzun in "The Kenyon Review", Volume 5, No. 3 (pp. 321-345), Part II, www.jstor.org. Summer 1943.

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• The general direction of evolution is to produce a serially imprinting, multibrained creature able to decipher its own program, create the technology to leave the planet and live in post-terrestrial mini-worlds, decode the aging sectors of the DNA code--thus assuring immortality, and act in harmony with stages of evolution to come.

  Timothy Leary

  Technology, Dna, World

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• The mission of DNA is to evolve nervous systems able to escape from the doomed planet and contact manifestations of the same amino-acid seeding that have evolved in other solar systems. The mission is the message--to escape and come home.

  Timothy Leary

  Home, Dna, Messages

  Timothy Leary (2003). “Musings on Human Metamorphoses”, p.15, Ronin Publishing

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• Fashion is not style. Nay, we can say more: Fashion is instead of style. Style is an idiom springing spontaneously from the personality but deliberately maintained. If you have no personality, you may be able to save your face and, possibly, your entire anatomy by following the current fashion, but all we shall know about you, when we see you coming down the street, is that you had enough money to buy a glossy magazine and were sufficiently cunning to work out the cut of the garments shown therein.

  Quentin Crisp

  Fashion, Cutting, Work Out

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• Women have been charged with deviousness and duplicity since the dawn of civilization so they have never been able to pretend that their masks were anything but masks. It is a slender case but perhaps it does mean that women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.

  Germaine Greer

  Mean, Reality, Men

  Germaine Greer (1970). “The female eunuch”, Macgibbon & Kee

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