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• You don't want a diction gathered from the newspapers, caught from the air, common and unsuggestive; but you want one whose every word is full-freighted with suggestion and association, with beauty and power.

  Rufus Choate

  Air, Want, Association

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 481), 1895.

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• It is not true that a man can believe or disbelieve what he will. But it is certain that an active desire to find any proposition true will unconsciously tend to that result by dismissing importunate suggestions which run counter to the belief, and welcoming those which favor it. The psychological law, that we only see what interests us, and only assimilate what is adapted to our condition, causes the mind to select its evidence.

  George Henry Lewes

  Running, Believe, Men

  George Henry Lewes (1874). “Problems of Life and Mind”, p.429

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• [To the suggestion that Great Britain might someday want a Republic:] We'll go quietly.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Republic, Want, Might

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• I scarcely remember any writer who has ever ventured to say that the half of the work of the world is actually accomplished by women; and very few husbands who would be otherwise than greatly startled and amazed, if not indignant, if not derisive, at the suggestion of such an idea as that the work of their wives was equal to their own.

  Margaret Oliphant

  Husband, Work, Equality

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• [On accepting travel suggestions from her two daughters, 6 and 3:] When they pay for the vacation, they get to dictate where we go.

  Jessica Alba

  Daughter, Travel, Vacation

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• Creativity is not the domain of one single person. Through free-association of thoughts and brainstorming, an accidental suggestion can be the best solution.

  Joshua Fernandez

  Creativity, Association, Being The Best

  "It Takes Two Bright Sparks to BOO". New Straits Times, August 23, 1998.

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• Has any psychological experiment yielded a more delightful suggestion than this one: that there is a part of the mind without ambition or information, which nonetheless is expert on what is beautiful?

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Beautiful, Ambition, Mind

  "Chapter 8: Lines: Untitled", www.theguardian.com. November 14, 1985.

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• To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To you, respect.

  Oren Arnold

  Christmas, Xmas, Children

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• A conservative party that reshapes its self-presentation according to the suggestions of the liberal media, of course, may very well get what such lack of courage deserves. Having been told by their opponents for years that the key to Republican victory was a softening of the message and more smiles, Republicans have now apparently taken a big dose of this medicine. One might counsel more caution in accepting medicine from one's enemies.

  Alan Keyes

  Taken, Party, Liberal Media

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• I respect Senator McCain a great deal and believe he has many - many good ideas and suggestions that I would certainly want to avail myself of if I were in a setting that - that required the input of other leaders. Senator McCain would be one of those that I'd want to hear from.

  Mitt Romney

  Believe, Ideas, Leader

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• A living organism must be studied from two distinct aspects. One of these is the causal-analytic aspect which is so fruitfully applicable to ontogeny. The other is the historical descriptive aspect which is unravelling lines of phylogeny with ever-increasing precision. Each of these aspects may make suggestions concerning the possible significance of events seen under the other, but does not explain or translate them into simpler terms.

  Gavin de Beer

  Science, Two, Historical

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• The idea is the least labor and capital and resources you put together and the more you accumulate the better capitalist you are. So the suggestion I will make to you is that the idea of constant accumulation, which is what America is about, what consumerism, NAFTA are about, means that you always take more than you need and you don't leave the rest. So I suggest that it is possible from an indigenous world view that capitalism is inherently out of order with natural law.

  Winona LaDuke

  Mean, Order, Law

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• Don't take my criticisms as iron-clad rules but more as suggestions.

  Howard Pyle

  Iron, Criticism

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• In painting one must search rather for suggestion than for description, as is done in music.

  Paul Gauguin

  Done, Painting, Description

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• If you do not act on a suggestion at first, you grow dull to its message.

  Robert Henri

  Procrastination, Dull, Messages

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• A fine suggestion, a sketch with great feeling, can be as expressive as the most finished product.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Feelings, Finishing, Fine

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• In our democratic culture people often think it is threatening to judge another person's taste. Some are even offended by the suggestion that there is a difference between good and bad taste, or that it matters what you look at or read or listen to.

  Roger Scruton

  Thinking, Differences, Judging

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• My landscapes are not only beautiful or nostalgic, with a Romantic or classical suggestion of lost Paradises, but above all 'untruthful'.

  Gerhard Richter

  Beautiful, Deception, Paradise

  Robert Storr, Gerhard Richter, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (2002). “Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting”, p.67, The Museum of Modern Art

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• The public is the tribunal before which all art is judged - not the critics or the academies. The public is the artist's only patron, and has certain fundamental rights. It will submit to education, and will respond to suggestion, but it will not be bullied.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Art, Rights, Fundamentals

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• The risk is that you furnish the project with new suggestions to try and freshen it up; it's not always beneficial. You risk betraying the original intention with the story, forgetting what it is you really want to portray.

  Lars von Trier

  Betrayal, Risk, Trying

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• Too much reality in a picture is always a disappointment to the imaginative soul. We love suggestion and not hard facts.

  John F. Carlson

  Disappointment, Reality, Soul

  John F. Carlson (2013). “Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting”, p.118, Courier Corporation

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• The fact that you are here tonight gathered together with us testifies to the fact you understand the need for this organization and the need for redoubling our efforts in this organization to try to assure that democracy as represented by the United States must depend upon a total freedom of religion, which is written into our Constitution, of course, and the mere suggestion that anyone could maintain that one's patriotism, one's devotion to one's country can be judged by one's religion is so vile, so vile that we have to take to the streets indeed and to put it aside.

  Walter Cronkite

  God, Country, Organization

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• By suggestion and example, I believe children can be helped to hear the many voices about them. Take Time to listen and talk about the voices of the earth and what they mean-the majestic voice of thunder, the winds, the sound of surf or flowing streams.

  Rachel Carson

  Children, Believe, Mean

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.32, Open Road Media

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• Hence when a person is in great pain, the cause of which he cannot remove, he sets his teeth firmly together, or bites some substance between them with great vehemence, as another mode of violent exertion to produce a temporary relief. Thus we have the proverb where no help can be has in pain, 'to grin and abide;' and the tortures of hell are said to be attended with 'gnashing of teeth.'Describing a suggestion of the origin of the grin in the present form of a proverb, 'to grin and bear it.'

  Erasmus Darwin

  Pain, Together, Vehemence

  Erasmus Darwin (1818). “Zoonomia”, p.330

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• One great remedy against all manner of temptation, great or small, is to open the heart and lay bare its suggestion, likings, and dislikings before some spiritual adviser; for, . . . the first condition which the Evil One makes with a soul, when he wants to entrap it, is silence.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Spiritual, Heart, Evil

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