Piet Mondrian Quotes
The cultivated man of today is gradually turning away from natural things, and his life is becoming more and more abstract. Natural (external) things become more and more automatic, and we observe that our vital attention fastens more and more on internal things.
Quotes to Explore
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I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty miles than see animals in strife.
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Any form of art is political if you make it that way.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
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You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.
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I don't want to make games for 12-year-olds. I have no interest in that. I haven't been 12 in a long time.
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We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.
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But the issue has to do with land, which is our land.
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I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?
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Today in the era of globalization there is no such issue as borders between states of the same nation.
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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I'm the most optimistic guy about VR out there. I have crazy visions of what we'll be doing in the future.
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The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin' Spoonful and everybody else.
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Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.
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I bought an electric scooter in sixth grade. Bankrupted me.
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Every time I had a book come out, I'm like, 'Is it going to be number one?'
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In the story of Jesus I found ... a center for my being. Behind the supernatural framework of the first century, behind the language of myth, magic, and superstition, I discovered a life I wanted to know; a life that possessed a power I wanted to possess; a freedom, a wholeness for which I had yearned for years.
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Reconstruction was a vast labor movement of ignorant, muddled, and bewildered white men who had been disinherited of land and labor and fought a long battle with sheer subsistence, hanging on the edge of poverty, eating clay and chasing slaves and now lurching up to manhood.
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The most important thing in this world is faith. Without faith you cannot communicate with God.
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The cultivated man of today is gradually turning away from natural things, and his life is becoming more and more abstract. Natural (external) things become more and more automatic, and we observe that our vital attention fastens more and more on internal things.
