John Ruskin Quotes
... A power of obtaining veracity in the representation of material and tangible things, which, within certain limits and conditions, is unimpeachable, has now been placed in the hands of all men, almost without labour. (1853)
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.
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The idea of a soulmate is beautiful and very romantic to talk about it in a movie or a song, but in reality, I find it scary.
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Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
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Many times, when you do what I do or work in journalism in general, people try to not explicitly present their opinions on topics.
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I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.
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I really sort of kept to myself. I kind of just watched the world. And I think to keep people from messing with me, yeah, you know, I went out to run track. I went out for the football team. Not because I love track or love football.
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Scriptures reveal the divine desires of the Lord in our behalf. Each of us should have a burning desire to search the scriptures diligently and daily to seek the will of the Lord in our life. For some, it may be necessary to develop the discipline to search the scriptures daily.
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Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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I would never say somebody had to vote for anybody. That would be terrible. I haven't said that.
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I was truly honored to work with legendary DJ and producer DJ Premier. I still can't believe I have a track with Premier; it really is one of the best songs I've written in a long time.
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If there's something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body.
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The biggest challenge in New Orleans has been to find workers who can climb a ladder after lunch.
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There's a right way of doing things and a wrong way. If you've made up your mind to be different from everybody else, I don't suppose I can stop you, but I really don't think it's very considerate.
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If you you're in the United States, sometimes you can feel lazy and think we're so big we don't have to really know anything about other people.
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Our Soviet writer must be guided in his world only by the need of the people, useful for the society.
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In the beginning was the Word.In the end...past honor, past life, past caring...In the end will be the Word.
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The explorers of the past were great men and we should honour them. But let us not forget that their spirit lives on. It is still not hard to find a man who will adventure for the sake of a dream or one who will search, for the pleasure of searching, not for what he may find.
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Would a real man get caught eating a twinkie?
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Color and bite permeate a language designed to rally many men, to destroy some, and to change the minds of others.
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... A power of obtaining veracity in the representation of material and tangible things, which, within certain limits and conditions, is unimpeachable, has now been placed in the hands of all men, almost without labour. (1853)
