Carl Andre
Artist
"Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary."
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Exclusion
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Truman Capote
Author, Journalist
"There is nobody in the world that you can't get if you really concentrate on it, if you really want them. You've got to want it to the exclusion of everything else."
Abraham Maslow
Psychologist
"The theory of science which permits and encourages the exclusion of so much that is true and real and existent cannot be considered a comprehensive science."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Author
"Every where I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded."
George Eliot
Novelist, Poet, Journalist
"When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion."
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"I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people."
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"Me, I've concentrated on music pretty much to the exclusion of other things."
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"Of my sowing such straw I reap. O human folk, why set the heart there where exclusion of partnership is necessary"
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"Peace cannot be built on exclusion. That has been the price of the past 30 years."
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"You do not invite experience with your 'yes' and exclude it with your 'no'. There is no exclusion in this attraction-based Universe. Your focus in the invitation."
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"The label YA actually means nothing except that the protagonists, or some of them, are young. Publishers like it because it is a secure marketing niche. But the cost of security is exclusion from literary consideration."
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"I thank heaven that the 4th. of July is over. It is always a day of great fatigue to me, and of some embarrassments from improper intrusions and some from unintended exclusions."
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