Conservatism, though a necessary element in any stable society, is not a social program; in its paternalistic, nationalistic and power adoring tendencies it is often closer to socialism than true liberalism.
~ Friedrich Hayek
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There is no such thing as good painting about nothing. We assert that only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless. That is why we profess spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art.
~ Mark Rothko
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The artist is of no importance.
~ William Faulkner
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Agonizing over whether your love is “the real thing” or your sexual relationship above or below par, and wondering whether you could have done better is a prescription for misery. Knowing that you’ve made a decision choice that you will not reverse allows you to pour your energy into improving the relationship that you have rather than constantly second-guessing it.
~ Barry Schwartz
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Much more definitive and much more lasting than all the gold that one can accumulate is the gratitude of a people.
~ Che Guevara
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Educators have yet to realize how deeply the industrial system is dependent upon them.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
~ Gertrude Stein
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Benevolence is the characteristic element of humanity.
~ Confucius
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In all memory there is a degree of fallenness; we are all exiles from our own pasts, just as, on looking up from a book, we discover anew our banishment from the bright worlds of imagination and fantasy.
~ John Lanchester
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All systems of morality are based on the idea that an action has consequences that legitimize or cancel it. A mind imbued with the absurd merely judges that those consequences must be considered calmly.
~ Albert Camus
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