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Benjamin Franklin Inventor, Statesman, Author
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"History will also give occasion to expatiate on the advantage of civil orders and constitutions; how men and their properties are protected by joining in societies and establishing government; their industry encouraged and rewarded, arts invented, and life made more comfortable; the advantages of liberty, mischiefs of licentiousness, benefits arising from good laws and a due execution of justice. Thus may the first principles of sound politics be fixed in the minds of youth."

Men Art Education
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Aeschylus Playwright
Art

"O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse."

Art Pain Physicians
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Adrienne Rich Poet, Essayist, Feminist
Art

"Art and literature have given so many people the relief of feeling connected - pulled us out of isolation. It has let us know that somebody else breathed and dreamed and had sex and loved and raged and knew loneliness the way we do."

Art Sex Loneliness
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Adrienne Rich Poet, Essayist, Feminist
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"The channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle."

Art Song Struggle
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Agnes Martin Artist
Art

"Pollock was terrific. I think he freed himself of all kinds of worry about this world. Ran around and dripped, and then he managed to express ecstasy."

Thinking Art Worry
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David Hume Philosopher, Historian
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"If nature has been frugal in her gifts and endowments, there is the more need of art to supply her defects. If she has been generous and liberal, know that she still expects industry and application on our part, and revenges herself in proportion to our negligent ingratitude. The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds; and instead of vines and olives for the pleasure and use of man, produces, to its slothful owner, the most abundant crop of poisons."

Art Revenge Weed
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David Hume Philosopher, Historian
Art

"[A person’s] utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value."

Art Nature Mortification
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David Lee Roth Musician
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"You want to know if we're animals? When I'm on stage with the volume rippling my body like a glass of water and thousands of people are generating heat in my direction, there's no time for thought. My basement facilities take over completely. Sure it's animal. People might like to talk about art, but look where art is, in the gutter."

Art Animal Glasses
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David Yu Artist
Art

"It's much harder to provide a great customer service than I would have ever realised. It's much more art than science in some of these other areas and not just about the facts but about how you are conveying them."

Art Inspirational Educational
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Delia Smith Author
Art

"There are people who claim to be instinctive cooks, who never follow recipes or weigh anything at all. All I can say is they're not very fussy about what they eat. For me, cooking is an exact art and not some casual game."

People Art Games
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Denis Diderot Philosopher, Writer
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"When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years."

Men Art Philosophy
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Denis Waitley Author, Motivational Speaker
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"Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece."

Art Life Perspective
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Dolly Parton Singer, Songwriter, Actress
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"I know my hair is out of the '60's, my clothes are '50's and the shoes I wear are from the '40's. But I like looking like I came out of a fairy tale."

Art Hair Shoes
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