"I want to hear the artist. I want to hear them give me something that I can relate to, other than the fact that everything's about bragging."
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"If you let markets - in general, my belief is that if you let markets give you information, they'll give you the information rather than artificially prop up everything."
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"You have to be careful when you're getting feedback because people will give you conflicting feedback all the time, but ultimately you end up following your own inner guide."
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"Our accent will be upon youth: we need new ideas, new methods, new approaches. We will call upon young students of political science throughout the nation to help us. We will encourage these young students to launch their own independent study, and then give us their analysis and their suggestions. We are completely disenchanted with the old, adult, established politicians. We want to see some new faces -- more militant faces."
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"It's joyful to give. But for people who want to take advantage of you, you're kind of an easy mark."
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""A cigar," said the altruist, "a cigar, my good man, I cannot give you. But any time you need a light, just come around; mine is always lit.""
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"Both love of mankind, and respect for their rights are duties; the former however is only a conditional, the latter an unconditional, purely imperative duty, which he must be perfectly certain not to have transgressed who would give himself up to the secret emotions arising from benevolence."
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"Art gives us the illusion of liberation from the sordid business of being."
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"Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity."
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"The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes."
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"Give children beauty, not the record of bloody slaughters and barbarous brawls, as they call history, or of the latitude and longitude of places nobody cares to visit, as they call geography."
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"While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance."
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"Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us."
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"The most effective method of propaganda directed at the enemy forces is to release captured soldiers and give the wounded medical treatment... Whenever soldiers of enemy forces are captured, we immediately conduct propaganda among them...This immediately knocks the bottom out of the enemy's slander that the Communist bandits kill everyone on sight."
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"I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery."
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"Just give the Italians a chance for drama and they take it with both hands."
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"If thine enemy offend thee, give his child a drum."
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"A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it."
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"There is no more self-contradictory concept than that of idle thoughts. What gives rise to the perception of a whole world can hardly be called idle. Every thought we have either contributes to truth or to illusion."
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"If you establish serenity and happiness inside yourself, you provide the world with a solid base of peace. If you do not give yourself peace, how can you share it with others? If you do not begin your peace work with yourself, where will you go to begin it?"
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