John Ruskin Quotes
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The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
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Where liberals see as an ever-more-splendid diversity of colors, creeds, ethnicities, ideologies, beliefs and lifestyles, the Right sees the disintegration of a country, a nation, a people, and its replacement with a Tower of Babel. Visions in conflict that democracy cannot reconcile.
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The great photographers of life - like Diane Arbus and Walker Evans and Robert Frank - all must have had some special quality: a personality of nurturing and non-judgment that frees the subjects to reveal their most intimate reality. It really is what makes a great photographer, every bit as much as understanding composition and lighting.
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I have always looked at my competencies before accepting any responsibility.
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It is my absolute belief that Indians have unlimited talent. I have no doubt about our capabilities.
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Camp Southern Ground is a lot more than a camp. It's more of a campus.
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You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.
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I am Parisian. I don't love the French.
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Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.
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I feel growing up in Mumbai is an advantage, as we grow up speaking so many languages that when we go abroad, it becomes easier to learn new languages.
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I think we have become obsessed with beauty and personally I'm really saddened by the way women mutilate their faces today in search of that.
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I grew up thinking that renting is perfectly normal. And then, strangely enough, I never did buy a house. I live in New York City, and I'm still renting. My own personal narrative shows that it is possible to live a respectable life without ever having owned a home.
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I want to position my books as premium-priced versions on the reasonably-priced scale, if that makes sense, to find a sweet spot between the high-end of what my brand can support and the low end that results in impulse purchases and maximum sales volume.
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Money is power and power gives you choice.
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You can expect nothing in being a musician, and you have to be just very thankful every time it goes positively for you.
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In a well-functioning democracy, citizens have the option of voting their political masters out of office. Not so in most companies.
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Anyone can like their job... To love your job is not enough, you must give your passion to your job.
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If no one knows your book is out there, no one will think about buying it. It's as simple as that.
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I'm the laziest inventor you ever met. My inventing is in my head - I don't have to be in the lab working and sweating.
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There is too much blind partisanship in Congress, which has blocked progress on critical issues. Too many members view compromise as weakness rather than the essence of our democracy. This has to end.
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People have their reasons for giving rides, all of them different. Maybe they hitched a lot when they were younger and now they're settled and comfortable they want to put back what they took out. Like a circular thing. Maybe they have charitable natures. Or maybe they're just lonely and want a little conversation.
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Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
