Patriotism is the religion of hell.
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Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.
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I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.
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We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.
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Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.
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I paint with shapes.
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People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.
321 views about death
I don't need the money, dear. I work for art.
424 quotes regarding art
90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.
345 thoughts about happiness
Death doesn't frighten me now I can think peacefully of ending a long life.
321 sayings regarding death
Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?
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I am now almost certain that we need more radiation for better health.
91 sayings about health
Computers are like Old Testament gods lots of rules and no mercy.
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My dad, Donald, was a vet and had a practice in Yorkshire. Cats and dogs were his bread and butter, but his greatest love was large animals.
38 wisdom & wit about fatherhood
Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.
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A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own.
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A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set.
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A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.
180 views about marriage
I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life.
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Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England.
199 quotes about freedom
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
142 quotes about failure
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
161 quotes relating to courage
It's nice to know that people appreciate and respect you.
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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
249 more wisdom & wit about aging
Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
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The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.
218 wisdom & wit about beauty
There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.
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In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.
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The will is never free - it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car - it can't steer.
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The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.
424 quotes relating to art
It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.
161 sayings about courage
Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation's conscience.
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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
262 quotes regarding knowledge
A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows.
262 sayings regarding knowledge
Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
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I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.
197 quotes about business
The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
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I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
249 thoughts about aging
Great art picks up where nature ends.
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We know not of the future and cannot plan for it much.
165 quotes regarding the future
I believe it is peace in our time.
225 quotes about peace
You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
15 quotes about amazing
Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.
249 wisdom & wit about aging
Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
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An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.
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A woman has the age she deserves.
249 sayings regarding aging
Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.
174 wisdom & wit relating to experience
The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.
364 quotes about best
Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.
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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.
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Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
249 sayings about aging
If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him... the people who give you their food give you their heart.
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I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.
233 quotes about being alone
We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
233 quotes about being alone
All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
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I know that my race must change.
175 wisdom & wit about change
Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.
249 wisdom & wit about aging
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
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Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
44 quotes regarding attitudes
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
424 views about art
Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.
321 more wisdom & wit about death
Conscience is the root of all true courage if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.
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Between 1910 and 1950 approximately 350 lives of Jesus were published in the English language alone.
233 thoughts about being alone
History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
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All that I know I learned after I was thirty.
174 quotes about experience
Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government.
184 views regarding government
Boys, they can't take my refrigerator now. They'll never get my car now. I paid cash for 'em and they're mine, and I'm keepin' 'em!
30 quotes about cars
Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.
249 sayings about aging
Don't come home a failure.
142 wisdom & wit regarding failure
Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.
345 views about happiness
But it is my happiness to be half Welsh, and that the better half.
345 other wisdom & wit about happiness
It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death.
321 thoughts about death
An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
424 quotes about art
The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.
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I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.
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Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.
210 quotes about education
The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.
62 wisdom & wit relating to architecture
One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
249 quotes about aging
True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.
161 thoughts regarding courage
People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves.
25 quotes about environmental
I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.
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He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.
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No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.
277 more wisdom & wit about fear
My first feeling about the paper and the attitude is that it is absurd.
44 views regarding attitudes
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
58 views about anger
Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.
87 sayings relating to family
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
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An artist cannot fail it is a success to be one.
424 quotes about art
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
197 thoughts about business
The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.
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For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.
250 quotes regarding history
A house is a machine for living in.
62 wisdom & wit regarding architecture
Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!
249 quotes about aging
O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!
218 quotes about beauty
After all, is football a game or a religion?
247 quotes about religion
The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.
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He who keeps his cool best wins.
364 views about best
The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
345 quotes about happiness
The higher the building the lower the morals.
62 quotes about architecture
The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.
175 thoughts regarding change
A good motto is: use friendliness but do not use your friends.
427 quotes regarding being good
For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
175 quotes about change
Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.
142 views regarding failure
Of course, Americans have no monopoly of patriotic enthusiasm and good faith.
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Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.
240 wisdom & wit regarding faith
I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.
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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
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Caesar might have married Cleopatra, but he had a wife at home. There's always something.
131 quotes about home
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
277 sayings regarding fear
Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
58 quotes about anger
Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God.
247 sayings about religion