Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.
~ William F. Buckley, Jr.
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Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.
~ William F. Buckley, Jr.
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I would rather be governed by the first two thousand people in the Boston telephone directory than by the two thousand people on the faculty of Harvard University.
~ William F. Buckley, Jr.
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Though liberals do a great deal of talking about hearing other points of view, it sometimes shocks them to learn that there are other points of view.
~ William F. Buckley, Jr.
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The largest cultural menace in America is the conformity of the intellectual cliques which, in education as well as the arts, are out to impose upon the nation their modish fads and fallacies, and have nearly succeeded in doing so.
~ William F. Buckley, Jr.
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If we give the attributes of a medium to the artist, we must then deny him the state of consciousness on the aesthetic plane about what he is doing or why he is doing it.
~ Marcel Duchamp
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I am not going to New York, I am leaving Paris. That’s quite different.
~ Marcel Duchamp
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I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid
conforming to my own tastes.
~ Marcel Duchamp
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I do not believe in painting per se – A painting is made not by the artist but by those who look at it and grant it their favors.
~ Marcel Duchamp
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