"Jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule."
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"When you're talking about fighting, as it is, with no rules, well then, baby you'd better train every part of your body!"
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"The secret of the enjoyment of pleasure is to know when to stop. Man doesn't learn this secret easily, but to shun pleasure altogether is cowardly avoidance of a difficult job. For we have to learn the art of enjoying things BECAUSE they are impermanent."
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"It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about."
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"It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks."
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"By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right implies also a duty: one must not conceal any part of what on has recognized to be true. It is evident that any restriction on academic freedom acts in such a way as to hamper the dissemination of knowledge among the people and thereby impedes national judgment and action."
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"Great art is more than a transient refreshment. It is something which adds to the permanent richness of the soul's self-attainment. It justifies itself both by its immediate enjoyment, and also by its discipline of the inmost being. Its discipline is not distinct from enjoyment but by reason of it. It transforms the soul into the permanent realization of values extending beyond its former self."
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"It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it."
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"Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor."
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"Boxing, mixed martial arts and tennis are the hardest sports to train for."
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"I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs."
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"Artists make art. Singers sing. Players play. Gypsies travel. Music lights fires everywhere. It's like oxygen!"
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"A woman is fascinated not by art but by the noise made by those in the field."
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"Wherever there is degeneration and apathy, there also is sexual perversion, cold depravity, miscarriage, premature old age, grumbling youth, there is a decline in the arts, indifference to science, and injustice in all its forms."
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"Water, thou hast no taste, no color, no odor; canst not be defined, art relished while ever mysterious. Not necessary to life, but rather life itself, thou fillest us with a gratification that exceeds the delight of the senses."
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"If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for."
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"Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul."
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"I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment."
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"The mystical life is at the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write."
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"All art is in the last analysis an endeavor to condense as out of the flying vapor of the world an image of human perfection, and for its own and not for the art's sake."
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