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• Our purity of taste is best tested by its universality, for if we can only admire this thing or that, we maybe use that our cause for liking is of a finite and false nature.

  John Ruskin

  Taste, Causes, Purity

  John Ruskin (2013). “Selections and Essays”, p.87, Courier Corporation

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• I think translation is an impossible job, and I admire the people who do it in a way that brings poetry to us that we wouldn't have access to.

  Joan Larkin

  Jobs, Thinking, People

  "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

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• Much of appreciating art or music is really the interpretation of the listener. To a certain extent it's projection - it's what people need or lack in themselves that they then put upon these people that they admire.

  Conor Oberst

  Art, People, Appreciate

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• All these stupendous objects are daily around us; but because they are constantly exposed to our view, they never affect our minds, so natural is it for us to admire new, rather than grand objects. Therefore the vast multitude of stars which diversify the beauty of this immense body does not call the people together; but when any change happens therein, the eyes of all are fixed upon the heavens.

  Saint Basil

  Stars, Eye, Views

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• A fool always finds one still more foolish to admire him.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Fool, Plus, Folly

  "The Art of Poetry (Canto I)". Book by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, 1674.

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• The future is always fairyland to the young. Life is like a beautiful and winding lane, on either side bright flowers, and beautiful butterflies and tempting fruits, which we scarcely pause to admire and to taste, so eager are we to hasten to an opening which we imagine will be more beautiful still. But by degrees, as we advance, the trees grow bleak; the flowers and butterflies fail, the fruits disappear, and we find we have arrived--to reach a desert waste.

  George Augustus Henry Sala

  Beautiful, Flower, Future

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• Virtue, without the graces, is like a rich diamond unpolished--it hardly looks better than a common pebble; but when the hand of the master rubs off the roughness, and forms the sides into a thousand brilliant surfaces, it is then that we acknowledge its worth, admire its beauty, and long to wear it in our bosoms.

  Jane Porter

  Hands, Long, Grace

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.104

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• This earth is my sister; I love her daily grace, her silent daring, and how loved I am. How we admire this strength in each other, all that we have lost, all that we have suffered, all that we know: We are stunned by this beauty, and I do not forget: what she is to me, what I am to her.

  Susan Griffin

  Grace, Earth, Forget

  Susan Griffin (2015). “Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her”, p.190, Open Road Media

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• [After World War II:] By now we are used to the rubble, which they clear up religiously and indefatigably. What a determination to get on top again! One could admire it, if one would not be afraid that somewhere lurks another Hitler. But you can't seem to find a single Nazi in Germany! Nobody was one! It was all a dream!

  Lotte Lenya

  Dream, Determination, War

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• Art consists precisely in making us admire old stories, charming us with them eternally, as Nature charms with her eternal sun, her ancient earth, and her men built all on the same pattern, and all animated by the same feelings.

  Marie Bashkirtseff

  Art, Men, Feelings

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• There is probably no greater idler than myself. And I would consider myself a lazy-bones if I did not write so many volumes, and if I did not admire my diligence once I begin writing.

  Henryk Sienkiewicz

  Writing, Lazy, Idlers

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• It is the utterly destructive quality. When you say vanity, you are thinking of the kind that admires itself in mirrors and buys things to deck itself out in. But that is merely personal conceit. Real vanity is something quite different. A matter not of person but of personality. Vanity says, "I must have this because I am me." It is a frightening thing because it is incurable.

  Josephine Tey

  Real, Thinking, Vanity

  Josephine Tey (1952). “The singing sands”, Vintage

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• I met PJ Harvey when I was in England, and the first thing I want to do when I meet a songwriter I admire is to ask them how do they receive songs.

  Valerie June

  Song, Pjs, Firsts

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• I do admire [Willie] Wonka. He's a true capitalist. His factory has zero government regulations, slave labor and an indoor boat. Wonderful.

  Alec Baldwin

  Zero, Government, Slave Labor

  Source: www.npr.org

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• When I hear a great new record, especially when it's by someone that I respect and admire, then a part of me is like, Why didn't I think of that? Why didn't I write that record? It makes you sick, but in a way it can be a great thing. It makes you want to go back to the lab and start writing again. Maybe it will inspire you to try a little harder.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Writing, Thinking, Sick

  "Of course you can lose yourself" by Paul Flynn, www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2006.

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• If you ask footballers to pick out the player they most admire, so many of them will pick Paul Scholes.

  Alan Shearer

  Player, Paul Scholes, Footballer

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• I admire the ambition of the project, and the generosity of many of the lines.

  Robert Fagles

  Ambition, Generosity, Lines

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• It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.

  Frances Mayes

  Book, People, Kind

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• I studied in Britain and spent great moments of my life there as a student living in Belsize Park. I admire the British trait of the stiff upper lip in the face of adversity. My wife studied in Britain too and both of us have many friends there.

  Asif Ali Zardari

  Adversity, Wife, Parks

  Interview with Luke Harding, www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2000.

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• I have a company that does design and animation, so obviously graffiti is definitely an intricate part of what we admire and respect in the art world.

  Mick Ebeling

  Art, Design, Graffiti

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• How can you admire a human who consciously embraces the bland, the mediocre, and the safe rather than risk the suffering that disappointment can bring?

  Tom Robbins

  Disappointment, Risk, Suffering

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• I admire leaders in science, people who really figure things out like Richard Fineman or people who work on vaccines, tons of people working on [the] HIV vaccine. There's leaders in business, people like Warren Buffett, who've got a certain approach they take that are pretty amazing. There [are] product innovators like Steve Jobs was, where he gets behind a concept and does a fantastic job.

  Bill Gates

  Jobs, Vaccines, People

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I feel happy about the songs I've written. I'm a great lover of the craft of songwriting, and I sure admire it in other people when I see it - past and present. I feel comfortable with what I have accomplished. I feel happy to be able to work in that environment, and that I have a lot of songs left to be written, somewhere.

  John Fogerty

  Song, Past, People

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. November 27, 2007.

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• I like people who are as unlike me as possible, which is not an expression of self disgust or self hatred, but it's just that you know you obviously particularly admire things that you recognize yourself as not having.

  Stephen Fry

  Self, Expression, People

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. December 8, 2009.

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• Ruling is hard. This was maybe my answer to Tolkien, whom, as much as I admire him, I do quibble with. Lord of the Rings had a very medieval philosophy: that if the king was a good man, the land would prosper. We look at real history and it's not that simple... Real-life kings had real-life problems to deal with... My people who are trying to rule don't have an easy time of it. Just having good intentions doesn't make you a wise king.

  George R. R. Martin

  Leadership, Wise, Kings

  "George R.R. Martin: The Rolling Stone Interview". Interview with Mikal Gilmore, www.rollingstone.com. April 23, 2014.

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