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• In art, there is one thing which does not receive sufficient attention. The element which is left to the human will is not nearly so large as people think.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Art, Thinking, People

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• Those same forces that drive a genius to create the things or ideas that entertain or enlighten us often gobble so much of his personality that he has none left for the social graces.

  Tom Robbins

  Ideas, Personality, Grace

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.137, Bantam

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• I haven't many years left ahead of me and I must devote all my time to painting, in the hope of achieving something worthwhile in the end, something if possible that will satisfy me.

  Claude Monet

  Years, Painting, Achieve

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

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• When I left the West Coast I was a liberal. When I landed in New York I was a revolutionary.

  Jane Fonda

  New York, West Coast, Revolutionary

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• But we are not going to be able to survive on this limited planet if the population keeps on growing: there isn't going to be anything left.

  Prince Philip

  Reality, Population, Growing

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• I left General Magic in 1996 to become an Internet hobbyist - got a T-1 line to my house. At one point I had all four food banks of the Bay Area hosted from this house here.

  Andy Hertzfeld

  House, Magic, Bay Area

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• I had whooping cough when I was very young, which left me with bronchial problems, and I would always pick up colds. I was very thin and nervous so my father and mother took me out of school and had me tutored at home.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Mother, Father, Home

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• Well, being the youngest child and frail, I was left alone a great deal of the time.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Children, Loneliness, Frail

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• If painters left nothing of themselves after their deaths, so that we were obliged to rank them as we do actors according to the judgment of their contemporaries, how different their reputations would be from what posterity has made them!

  Eugene Delacroix

  Different, Would Be, Actors

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• This is a terrible confession to make, but after I left the Army I had a number of things to try. I had a great conceit to think that if all else failed I could always go to Hollywood. So when all else did fail I really went to Hollywood. And then I found out how wrong I was.

  David Niven

  Army, Thinking, Numbers

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• The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. We can never really love anybody with whom we never laugh. Love is in the giver, not the gift. He told me that once he forgot himself and opened up like a door with a loose latch and everything fell out and he tried for days to put it all back in the proper order, but he finally gave up and left if there in a pile and loved everything equally. thanks to a subscriber! -William Sloan Coffin.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Love, Doors, Order

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• Baseball ought never be hurried. It is the only unhurried institution we have left, which is one reason, I think, we love it.

  James J. Kilpatrick

  Baseball, Thinking, Reason

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• All freedom to man, but freedom is useful when we know what life is, when we know what past is, what present is, when we know how to go about things, not that every man should be left to experiment by himself.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Past, Men, Life Is

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• We will never forget that blessing. It was the most pained and moving blessing, which left us with the extreme testimony of his will to complete his ministry until the end.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Moving, Blessing, Ministry

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• If I could leave this body with one wish, it would be that we never give up that search for common ground, .. The politics of common ground will not be found on the far right, or on the far left. That is not where most Americans live. We will only find it on the firm middle ground, based on common sense and shared values.

  Tom Daschle

  Giving Up, Common Sense, Wish

  "Daschle: 'Grateful for every moment", www.cnn.com. November 19, 2004.

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• One of the things I keep coming back to in my writing is that society doesn't work on this mirror principle - you don't have an exact replica on the left of what you have on the right. It just doesn't work that way.

  Thomas Frank

  Writing, Mirrors, Principles

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. February 18, 2011.

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• Perhaps the most important ingredient in my work... is my brain - particularly the right brain... the free spontaneous side, and the left brain, which is careful and methodical.

  Brian Johnson

  Thinking, Brain, Important

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• It's interesting that at a time when she could have differentiated herself from the ranks of [Democratic National Committee Chairman] Howard Dean and Nancy Pelosi and the far left ranks of the Democratic Party, she chose to join those on the front ranks of the blame game, It would have been interesting if she had shown some level of restraint.

  Brian Jones

  Party, Games, Interesting

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• Our ego is a monster that loves to sit at the head of the table, and I have learned that my ego is just as rude and loud and hungry as everyone else's. It doesn't matter how much you get; you are left wanting more.

  Amy Poehler

  Rude, Ego, Tables

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.170, Pan Macmillan

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• Please, accept the most sincere words of sympathy over the natural disaster that affected the United States . I know that hurricane Katrina that hit the US south-western coast led to casualties, left homeless dozens of thousands of US citizens and inflicted a strong damage to the economy of this region. I ask you to convey my condolences to the next of kin of those killed,.

  Vladimir Putin

  Strong, Condolences, Hurricanes

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• There is no such thing as starting where Cezanne left off. You have to start where he started... at the beginning.

  Kimon Nicolaides

  Cezanne, Starting

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• Sisters define their rivalry in terms of competition for the gold cup of parental love. It is never perceived as a cup which runneth over, rather a finite vessel from which the more one sister drinks, the less is left over for the others.

  Elizabeth Fishel

  Friendship, Competition, Gold

  Elizabeth Fishel (1997). “Sisters: Shared Histories, Lifelong Ties”, Red Wheel

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• Ghetto-dwellers are the great fantasists. There was an extraordinary vibrancy there, an imaginative life. When you are that poor, all you've got left is your belief in the imagination.

  Ben Okri

  Ghetto, Imagination, Vibrancy

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• Pick up a pinecone and count the spiral rows of scales. You may find eight spirals winding up to the left and 13 spirals winding up to the right, or 13 left and 21 right spirals, or other pairs of numbers. The striking fact is that these pairs of numbers are adjacent numbers in the famous Fibonacci series

  Stuart Kauffman

  Numbers, Eight, Pairs

  Stuart Kauffman (1996). “At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity”, p.151, Oxford University Press

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• Today we live in a world that judges its achievements by speed and busyness. … We are so busy making things happen that we have little time left to think about the value of what is happening. We urgently need people who concentrate on the meaning of life rather than simply the speed.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Thinking, People, Judging

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