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		Religion I have defined as "Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art".
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
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		The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
	
	  Walt Whitman Walt Whitman
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		Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.
	
	  Karen Armstrong Karen Armstrong
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		Religion provides the only story that is fundamentally consoling in the face of the worst possible experiences - the death of a parent, for instance. In fact, many religions take away the problem entirely, because their adherents ostensibly believe that they're going to be reunited with everyone they love, and death is an illusion.
	
	  Sam Harris Sam Harris
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		Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted.
	
	  Patrick Duffy Patrick Duffy
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		Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows that each period of culture produces an art of its own which can never be repeated.
	
	  Wassily Kandinsky Wassily Kandinsky
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		Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
	
	  Octavia E. Butler Octavia E. Butler
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		It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.
	
	  Calvin Coolidge Calvin Coolidge
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		What use is revelation or religion if it doesnt change anything?
	
	  Abu Bakar Bashir Abu Bakar Bashir
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		With head upraised, and look intent,And eye and ear attentive bent,And locks flung back, and lips apart,Like monument of Grecian art,In listening mood, she seemed to stand,The guardian Naiad of the strand.
	
	  Walter Scott Walter Scott
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		The language of art is constituted precisely by the fact that it speaks to the self-understanding of every person, and it does this as ever present and by means of its own contemporaneousness. Indeed, precisely the contemporaneousness of the work allows it to come to expression in language. Everything depends on how something is said.
	
	  Hans-Georg Gadamer Hans-Georg Gadamer
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		There are no holidays for art; and that’s just fine with the artist.
	
	  Elfriede Jelinek Elfriede Jelinek
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		Cleavage Sister: 'What do you feel about erotic art?'Morrissey:'I don't know much about rotting art?'Cleavage Sister: 'What about erotic music?'Morrissey:'I know a great deal about rotting music.'
	
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				The Smiths Morrissey
			
			
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