John Ruskin Quotes
Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life. It is the sign of life in a mortal body, that is to say, of a state of progress and change. Nothing that lives is, or can be rigidly perfect; part of it is decaying, part nascent.
Quotes to Explore
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Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.
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I have won on Honda and Yamaha so maybe it is interesting to win with a third team, Ducati, who are Italian.
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
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I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.
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I believe journalism or news will migrate to the online medium.
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A weightlifter should be able to do everything and borrow things from other sports to beat competitors.
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We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake our part of the world into a corner of the globe on which all - of which all of humanity can be proud.
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It's always an inner wish of every actor to reach out to maximum audiences.
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Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
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Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.
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Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.
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We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.
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If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
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Intuitive cognition of a thing is cognition that enables us to know whether the thing exists or does not exist, in such a way that, if the thing exists, then the intellect immediately judges that it exists and evidently knows that it exists, unless the judgment happens to be impeded through the imperfection of this cognition.
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I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
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Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life. It is the sign of life in a mortal body, that is to say, of a state of progress and change. Nothing that lives is, or can be rigidly perfect; part of it is decaying, part nascent.
