John Ruskin Quotes
If some people really see angels where others see only empty space, let them paint the angels: only let not anybody else think they can paint an angel too, on any calculated principles of the angelic.
Quotes to Explore
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I believe America wants and needs the shared experience of television. We far too often see in crises how television brings us together.
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Jealousy is the worst trait in any person.
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I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since 1999.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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I don't see myself as someone that brings a lot of luggage.
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Here is the dirty little secret about anti-abortion violence: It works.
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I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.
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The Self of everyone, the Atma of everyone, the transcendental field of reality of everyone, is the same in everyone. Whether the body calls itself an American, German, Indian or Chinese, it doesn't matter.
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The most difficult thing to do is drama.
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You know I was curious - I was interested in all kinds of mystery or deeper meanings in the paintings because I myself have not analyzed why they have turned out like this or like that.
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My dear girl, you must cultivate a taste for the finer things. Civilized pleasures give meaning to life.
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The costs were greater than anticipated to the tune of, I would say, hundreds of millions, ... The slippages were actually more dramatic than the costs. As we slipped, the costs were pushed to the right.
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For we cannot adequately understand 'man' as an isolated biological creature, as a bundle of reflexes or a set of instincts, as an 'intelligible field' or a system in and of itself. Whatever else he may be, man is a social and an historical actor who must be understood, if at all, in close and intricate interplay with social and historical structures
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Before you tell me what you teach and preach, show me how you live and give.
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The purpose of daily prayer is the cultivation of a sense of the sacred. Sacred energy renews us.
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True believers just don't see things the way they are, because if they did, they wouldn't be true believers anymore.
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I can draw really well. And I like to paint. I'm a bit of an artist.
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Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.
