Eric Gill Quotes
Art itself has become an extraordinary thing - the activity of peculiar people - people who become more and more peculiar as their activity becomes more and more extraordinary.
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There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.
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We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
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For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general.
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The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
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If we don't do it, somebody else will. The Chinese, the Europeans and the Japanese all have the goal of going to the moon. Certainly we don't want to wake up and see that they have a base there before we do.
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Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.
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I love to see a woman in a sexy, strappy sandal no matter what. It just looks beautiful.
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The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.
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I want to make sure that that future that we're creating is one that is the best it can be for people around the world, and also one that includes the full range of our talent and our skills - and, you know, gender and ethnicity, geography - to solving the world's problems.
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Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
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Twitter has become a group conversation of that type that used to take place on trading floors.
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When you're never home and traveling, you don't play videogames.
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I am fascinated by Omega's history. Particularly the First World War stuff, when they made watches for the flying corps, and the NASA side of it.
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The only way anyone's going to succeed is to build the product.
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I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
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I am much more interested in the process than results.
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One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
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I do want to be a representative of the African community, and I want to hold myself and dress myself in a way that reflects that. I want black kids to see me and think, 'Okay, he's carrying himself as a black man, and that's how a black man should carry himself.'
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I care about my legacy.
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Admit it, it is your youth that you regret, more even than your crime; it is my youth you hate, even more than my innocence.
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You cannot change strategy due to a trend.
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You might not agree with something, but it doesn't mean you don't need to listen to it. White people have to accept that they don't always know about racism.
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Art itself has become an extraordinary thing - the activity of peculiar people - people who become more and more peculiar as their activity becomes more and more extraordinary.
