"Rules of taste enforce structures of power."
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"Taste tends to develop very unevenly. It's rare that the same person has good visual taste and good taste in people and taste in ideas."
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"Taste has no system and no proofs."
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"In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste."
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"Nobody has ever seen an electron. Nor a thought. You can't see a thought, you can't measure, weigh, nor taste it- but thoughts are the most real things in the Galaxy."
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"I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine."
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"I'm a pop enigma. I live and breathe every element in life. I rock a bespoke suit and I go to Harold's for fried chicken. It's all these things at once, because, as a taste maker, I find the best of everything."
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"Words spoken about the Way have no taste. When looked at, there's not enough to see. When listened to, there's not enough to hear. When used, it is never exhausted."
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"Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time."
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"My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what was going on in the innards of India."
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"A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it."
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"Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art."
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"Good taste is not a substitute for knowledge"
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"I have eclectic tastes in the movies I want to do."
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"Of all smells, bread; of all tastes, salt."
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"Of the smells, bread; of the tastes, salt."
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"Based or our baptism, all are called to a mystical life, to communion with God. We need to claim that, to taste it and feel it, to trust that the deeper we live this communion, the more our behavior will witness to the truth."
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"To do anything that suggested a taste for solitude, even to go for a walk by yourself, was always slightly dangerous. There was a word for it in Newspeak: ownlife."
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"To feel beauty is a better thing than to understand how we come to feel it. To have imagination and taste, to love the best, to be carried by the contemplation of nature to a vivid faith in the ideal, all this is more, a great deal more, than any science can hope to be."
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"As the prerogative of Natural Science is to cultivate a taste for observation, so that of Mathematics is, almost from the starting point, to stimulate the faculty of invention."
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