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Virgil
Practice and thought might gradually forge many an art.
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Titus Maccius Plautus, Trinummus
Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
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L. Ron Hubbard
ART is a word which summarizes THE QUALITY OF COMMUNICATION.
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Samuel Johnson
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
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Henry Louis Mencken
Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull. It is the sex instinct which makes women seem beautiful, which they are once in a blue moon, and men seem wise and brave, which they never are at all. Throttle it, denaturalize it, take it away, and human existence would be reduced to the prosiac, laborious, boresome, imbecile level of life in an anthill.
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Frank Moore Colby
Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.
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Joseph Brodsky
For aesthetics is the mother of ethics. Were we to choose our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programs, there would be much less grief on earth. I believe-not empirically, alas, but only theoretically-that for someone who has read a lot of Dickens to shoot his like in the name of an idea is harder than for someone who has read no Dickens.
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Barber B. Conable, Jr
I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision.
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Prophet Mohammed, Bukhari
Much silence and a good disposition, there are no two things better than these.
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Auguste Rodin
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated.
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Jean Houston
At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
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