Hermann Hesse Quotes
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No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.
Walter Bagehot
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The thing with me is, about that - about rock and all that - years and years of crate-digging, listening to old music, you kind of start to connect the dots. And I was seeing the thread that was connecting everything together, which is pretty much the blues. And everything soul or funk kind of starts with that.
D'Angelo
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
Zora Neale Hurston
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I thought I was an old soul, and that I knew life, but then starting the real life, I figured I am completely new.
Yael Naim
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The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
Ferdinand Foch
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The animal kingdom is destined by nature to serve, and that service is fulfilled in alleviating the temporal and physical needs of man; the animal spirit or soul is limited by time - it dies with the body.
Saint Bernard
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What nobody seems to understand is that love can only be one-sided, that no other love exists, that in any other form it is not love. If it involves less than total giving, it is not love. It is impotent; for the moment it is nothing.
Andrei Tarkovsky
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Art, to me, is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain.
Childe Hassam
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I think I was driven to paint portraits to commit images of friends and family to memory. I have face blindness, and once a face is flattened out, I can remember it better.
Chuck Close
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We should have an army so organized and so officered as to be capable in time of emergency, in cooperation with the National Militia, and under the provision of a proper national volunteer law, rapidly to expand into a force sufficient to resist all probable invasion from abroad and to furnish a respectable expeditionary force if necessary in the maintenance of our traditional American policy which bears the name of President Monroe.
William Howard Taft
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The consolations of the vulgar are bitter in the royal ear. Let physicians and confectioners and servants in the great houses be judged by what they have done, and even by what they have meant to do; the great people themselves are judged by what they are. I have been told that lions, trapped and shut up in cages, grieve from shame more than from hunger.
Karen Blixen
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Om is the bow, the arrow is soul.
Hermann Hesse