There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
~ Gertrude Stein
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Creativity is the defeat of habit by originality.
~ Arthur Koestler
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The utopia of socialism with a human face has been crushed everywhere even before it could be born. How distressing that becoming humane, which should be the least we could expect from a regime dedicated to liberating humanity, should present for socialism a problem as impossible as squaring the circle.
~ Jean-François Revel
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It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way—not his way.
~ Mark Rothko
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The willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
~ Joan Didion
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Scale will get you strategy.
~ Nicholas Negroponte
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The liar is a person who uses the valid designations, the words, in order to make something which is unreal appear to be real.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
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Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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It is startling to realize how much unbelief is necessary to make belief possible. What we know as blind faith is sustained by innumerable unbeliefs.
~ Eric Hoffer
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The artist says to the cosmos: All I ask is infinite love – is that so very wrong? And the cosmos doesn’t even bother to respond.
~ John Lanchester
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