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• Creative people... are distinguished by the fact that they can live with anxiety, even though a high price may be paid in terms of insecurity, sensitivity, and defenselessness for the gift of 'divine madness,' to borrow the term used by the classical Greeks.

  Rollo May

  People, Creative, Anxiety

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• I will not step down, I will not resign, ... I will work to the end of my term in office under the constitution. In the year 2000, there will be presidential elections under the constitution and I will not run in those elections.

  Boris Yeltsin

  Running, Years, Office

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• Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time.

  Fernand Braudel

  Events, Reason, Social

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• If the term discussion has always seemed to me to imply mild warnings of wasted time, workshop sets off a clangorous alarm.

  Paul Fussell

  Time, Alarms, Warning

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• What I like about music is its ability to be convincing, to carry an argument through successfully to the finish, though the terms of the argument remain unknown quantities.

  John Ashbery

  Music, Argument, Ability

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• Most artists, ashamed of their need for encouragement, try to carry their work to term like a secret pregnancy.

  Julia Cameron

  Encouragement, Pregnancy, Artist

  Julia Cameron (2005). “The Sound of Paper”, p.123, Penguin

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• It is the fragrant lack of practicality that makes high-heeled shoes so fascinating: in terms of static mechanics they induce a sort of insecurity which some find titillating.

  Stephen Bayley

  Shoes, Insecurity, Mechanic

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• In the long term, there are many factors that will help the luxury market, the creation of new wealth and the Asian tourist boom

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

  Luxury, Long, Tourists

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• I thought the best thing that I could do would be to clean up my own act, in terms of whatever .. childhood wounds were left.

  Patti Davis

  Childhood, Would Be, Clean

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• The reason the world is in the spot it's in is because North Korea entered into an agreement and then did not keep up their terms of the agreement. They received aid in return for promising not to develop nuclear weapons. They took the aid, they ran with the aid and then they developed a nuclear weapons anyway.

  Ari Fleischer

  Agreement, Korea, Nuclear

  "Powell sees no progress from North Korean proposal", www.cnn.com. April 29, 2003.

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• The word 'impressionism' as applied to art has been abused, and in the general acceptance of the term has become perverted.

  Childe Hassam

  Art, Acceptance, Impressionism

  Ulrich W. Hiesinger, Childe Hassam, Jordan-Volpe Gallery (1994). “Childe Hassam: American impressionist”, Te Neues Pub Group

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• One of the weaknesses of much abstract painting is the attempt to substitute the inventions of the intellect for a pristine imaginative conception. The inner life of a human being is a vast and varied realm and does not concern itself alone with stimulating arrangements of color, form and design. The term 'life' as used in art is something not to be held in contempt, for it applies all of its existence, and the province of art is to react to it and not to shun it. Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again be great.

  Edward Hopper

  Art, Color, Design

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• The different aspects of my activity, whether it's writing criticism, or doing visual work that incorporates writing, or teaching, or curating, is all of a single cloth, and I don't make any separation in terms of those practices.

  Barbara Kruger

  Teaching, Writing, Practice

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• Money can extinguish intrinsic motivation, diminish performance, crush creativity, encourage unethical behavior, foster short-term thinking, and become addictive.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Crush, Money, Motivation

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• Have you ever wondered why the slang terms for intoxication are so demolition-oriented? Stoned, smashed, hammered. It's because they're talking about the Ego. It's the Ego that gets blasted, waxed, plastered.

  Steven Pressfield

  Talking, Ego, Demolition

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• Let me here call attention to one of the most universally popular mistakes that have to do with photography - that of classing supposedly excellent work as professional, and using the term amateur to convey the idea of immature productions and to excuse atrociously poor photographs.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Photography, Mistake, Ideas

  Alfred Stieglitz, Richard Whelan, Sarah Greenough (2000). “Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes”

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• I believe that we should allow younger workers to contribute toward a personal account that they own, as long as it is coupled with deficit reduction measures that enhance the long-term condition of Social Security.

  Cliff Stearns

  Believe, Long, Social

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• While the space for artists and curators has increased enormously, maybe, just maybe, that's left room for too many people calling themselves artists and curators who are simply not up to the term.

  Jerry Saltz

  Artist, Space, People

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• If you look at the size of the art world in terms of the money that is being transacted compared to other parts of the 'consciousness industry,' it is minuscule. But if you look at what happens in this small sector, how it rubs off on the rest of it, it is astonishing.

  Hans Haacke

  Art, Money, Looks

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• The characteristic feature of the loser is to bemoan, in general terms, mankind's flaws, biases, contradictions, and irrationality - without exploiting them for fun and profit

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Fun, Loser, Flaws

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.15, Random House

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• The absorption of the individual in the universal is only another term for its destruction.

  C. H. Dodd

  Individual, Destruction, Absorption

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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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• I went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Home, Imagination, Development

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• In the past we used to think of poverty in absolute terms - meaning straightforward material deprivation... We need to think of poverty in relative terms - the fact that some people lack those things which others in society take for granted.

  David Cameron

  Past, Thinking, People

  "Tories claim 'big change' on poor". news.bbc.co.uk. November 24, 2006.

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• People are crying out for a Conservative Party that is decent, reasonable, common sense and in it for the long term of this country.

  David Cameron

  Country, Party, Common Sense

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