Dean Acheson Quotes
If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.
Dean Acheson
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I'm a professional fighter and like most professional fighters I have had difficulties with my hands in the past.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.
Hans Jonas
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I feel the art world in New York has a stronger following than Britain. If you go to a New York art district on a Saturday morning, it will be so busy with families and openings - art is much more ingrained in the culture.
Sam Taylor-Wood
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There's a physicality and confidence to Americans; they're very present. That's something I enjoy being around because it rubs off on you.
Ioan Gruffudd
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Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
Malcolm de Chazal
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Ray Bradbury's connections to fantasy, space, cinema, to the macabre and the melancholy, were all born of his years spent running, jumping, galloping through the woods, across the fields, and down the brick-paved streets of Waukegan.
Sam Weller
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Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements.
Paracelsus
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Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso
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You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.
Octavia Spencer
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Fear of carbs, of gluten, of everything - we've distanced ourselves from the beauty of food, the art of it. It makes me sad when people say, 'Oh, I don't eat gluten. I don't eat cheese. I don't eat this. So I eat cardboard.'
Olivia Wilde
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I'm not convinced that abstinence-only education works.
Barbara Delinsky
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I could say that making clothes is my way of communicating, because I was always so shy.
Jean Paul Gaultier
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Society has quite forsaken all her wicked courses,
W. S. Gilbert
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Well, the most important thing in investing is to know what you're investing in, and if you're confident in the outcome, it's important to stay true to your position.
John Paulson
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It just so happens that the green religion is now taking over from the Christian religion. I don't think people have noticed that, but it's got all the sort of terms that religions use... The greens use guilt. That just shows how religious greens are. You can't win people round by saying they are guilty for putting (carbon dioxide) in the air.
James Lovelock
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When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for? I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
Alan Paton
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If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.
Dean Acheson
