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He said, one has to learn that painting well - in the academic and technical sense - comes right at the bottom of the list. I mean, you've got that ability. So have thousands. John Fowles
Moreover, if great men are the only hope of the Evolutionary Process, they are morally bound to rule over the masses for their own good -- we are all here on earth to help others: what on earth the others are here for, I don't know -- and the masses have no right whatsoever to resist them. W. H. Auden
Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping the outcomes [of the various societies' histories] towards success or failure: long-term planning and willingness to reconsider core values. On reflection we can also recognize the crucial role of these same two choices for the outcomes of our individual lives. Jared Diamond
Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and perceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and last some crisis shows what we have become. Brooke Foss Westcott
O Virgins, sacrosanct, if I have ever, for your sake, suffered vigils, cold,, and hunger, great need makes me entreat my recompense. Dante Alighieri
Lou Holtz quote: "Never tell your problems to anyone...20% don't care and the..."
Never tell your problems to anyone...20% don't care and the other 80% are glad you have them. Lou Holtz
T. S. Eliot quote: "The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that..."
The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man T. S. Eliot
When Muslim radicals and fundamentalists look at the West, they see only the openness that makes us, in their eyes, decadent and promiscuous. They see only the openness that has produced Britney Spears and Janet Jackson. They do not see, and do not want to see, the openness - the freedom of thought and inquiry - that has made us powerful, the openness that has produced Bill Gates and Sally Ride. They deliberately define it all as decadence. Because if openness, women's empowerment, and... Thomas Friedman
The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will acceptthose whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected. E. M. Forster
Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own: under the influence of music I have the illusion of feeling things I don't really feel, of understanding things I don't understand, being able to do things I'm not able to do (...) Can it really be allowable for anyone who feels like it to hypnotize another person, or many other persons, and then do what he likes with them? Particularly if the hypnotist is the first... Leo Tolstoy
I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course. Tom Stoppard
Michael Powell knows what I am going to say even before I say it? maybe even before I have thought it? and that is very rare. You are lucky if you meet someone like that once in your life. Emeric Pressburger
Gone were the days when Zuckerman had only to worry about Zuckerman making money: henceforth he would have to worry about his money making money. Philip Roth
Anger ... it's a paralyzing emotion ... you can't get anything done. People sort of think it's an interesting, passionate, and igniting feeling —- I don't think it's any of that —- it's helpless ... it's absence of control —- and I need all of my skills, all of the control, all of my powers ... and anger doesn't provide any of that —- I have no use for it whatsoever. Toni Morrison
....though modern Marriage is a tremendous laboratory, its members are often utterly without preparation for the partnership function. How much agony and remorse and failure could have been avoided if there had been at least some rudimentary learning before they entered the partnership....And that statement is equally valid for all relationships. Leo Buscaglia

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