Ananda Coomaraswamy Quotes
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I keep returning to the combination of artichoke, broad beans and lemon. The freshness of young beans and the lemon juice 'lifts' the artichoke and balances its hearty nature.
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I've been caught in parachute pants. And on my high school yearbook, they used the wrong picture. They were supposed to use the picture of me with a nice suit on. They used me with my collar flipped up, in a fuchsia and white striped shirt. I blame Prince and Michael Jackson in the Eighties for that.
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This village is a real trap. Bit by bit it will eat up every single person who remain here. This place will never change.
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I think your posing and your onstage presentation is yet another piece of the craft. So anytime you get onstage to show the muscles and show the finished work, that should be looked at with the same kind of respect and appreciation. I'm glad everybody else appreciates it, but I still want to get better.
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Bye, Bye Miss American Pie, drove my chevy to the levy but the levy was dry. Good old boys drinking whiskey and rye, singing, this'll be the day that I die.
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Change happened and you thought it was forever, and immediately there were all the enemies of that change making common cause and meeting in the cloakrooms.
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Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good. Let us therefore study the incidents in this as philosophy to learn wisdom from and none of them as wrongs to be avenged.
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Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
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A conscience is that still small voice that people won't listen to.
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War brings out thieves and peace hangs them.
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Wealth without goodness is a worthless increase, and goodness needs substance.
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I travel because I want to know. Books and documentaries will only get you so far. If you want to know, you will have to go.
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Newcastle need a chief scout who is in unicism with the management.
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We need never refrain from asking anything of God simply on the ground that we think it impossible. God specializes in "impossible" things that are too good to be true.
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China more than two milleniums ago had already considered the idea of democracy, but at that time she could not put it into operation.
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Becoming is not a contradiction of being but the epiphany of being.
