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Science without conscience is the death of the soul.
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A tragedy need not have blood and death it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.
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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
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Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.
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Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
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I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
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The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair.
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I'm only drinking white wine because I'm on a diet and I don't eat.
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Dreams have always expanded our understanding of reality by challenging our boundaries of the real, of the possible.
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Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.
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The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.
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The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
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There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.
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Money buys many things... The best of which is freedom.
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It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
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Samuel Richardson (22)
The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.
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Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
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The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.
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Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.
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Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.
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As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.
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John Buchanan Robinson (3)
For each one of us stands alone in the midst of a universe.
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A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
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Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.
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A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
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Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.
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Auguste Rodin (4)
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
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Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.
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I'm an introvert at heart... And show business - even though I've loved it so much - has always been hard for me.
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The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
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It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.
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Erwin Rommel (2)
But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.
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Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
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Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.
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Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
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Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them.
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Don't go away. I don't want to be alone. I can't stand being alone.
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There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.
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Leave the table while you still feel you could eat a little more.
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Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.
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He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.
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Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.
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Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
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Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.
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