Cubism is no different from any other school of painting. The same principles and the same elements are common to all. The fact that for a long time cubism has not been understood and that even today there are people who cannot see anything in it, means nothing. I do not read English, and an English book is a blank to me. This does not mean that the English language does not exist, and why should I blame anyone but myself if I cannot understand what I know nothing about?
~ Pablo Picasso
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We want to build such an education system in India that youngsters do not need to go abroad to study. In fact, we would want foreign students to come here and study.
~ Narendra Modi via The Pie
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We have a crisis of leadership in America because our overwhelming power and wealth, earned under earlier generations of leaders, made us complacent, and for too long we have been training leaders who only know how to keep the routine going. Who can answer questions, but don’t know how to ask them. Who can fulfill goals, but don’t know how to set them. Who think about how to get things done, but not whether they’re worth doing in the first place.
~ William Deresiewicz
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The most melancholy of human reflections, perhaps, is that, on the whole, it is a question whether the, benevolence of mankind does most good or harm.
~ Walter Bagehot
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Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.
~ Milan Kundera
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Narratives do a lot to drive what our world looks like. They shape how we see ourselves, how we see our fellow citizens, how our elected officials see us—and what they do in reaction to those narratives can have far-reaching consequences.
~ Jerusalem Demsas via The Atlantic
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The cultivation — even celebration — of victimhood by intellectuals, tort lawyers, politicians and the media is both cause and effect of today’s culture of complaint.
~ George Will
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Not even one’s own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.
~ Milan Kundera
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Level 5 leaders are a study in duality: modest and willful, humble and fearless.
~ Jim Collins, Good to Great
Foreknowledge is power.
~ Auguste Comte
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