Charles Rennie Mackintosh Quotes
Life is the leaves which shape and nourish a plant, but art is the flower which embodies its meaning
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Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
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In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.
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My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard enough.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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My views line up with Mick Mulvaney's views pretty much exactly.
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When you're trying to accomplish lofty goals, and when you're attacking something of great magnitude, you have to have help.
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I didn't choose acting. The universe did.
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It often takes time for the Israeli government to get things done.
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Certainly, hunger can bring out the worst in us. But it can also bring out the best.
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Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.
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It was just a moment, and I saw myself. Then I no longer could say what I was.
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I've long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk. Whether we're talking about unpasteurized Stilton, raw oysters or working for organized crime 'associates,' food, for me, has always been an adventure.
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Così fa ch'ella un poco il duol raffrena;Ch'avendo ove sfogarlo, è meno acerbo.
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Many who think they are workers in politics are really merely tools.
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Fresh sneakers are important on a man. It's like a new pair of boxers or a new pair of socks.
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It is a paradox that far too few Americans participate in the wonderful ritual of democracy that we call Election Day.
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This country has achieved its commercial and financial supremacy under a regime of private ownership. It conquered the wilderness, built our railroads, our factories, our public utilities, gave us the telegraph, the telephone, the electric light, the automobile, the airplane, the radio and a higher standard of living for all the people than obtains anywhere else in the world. No great invention ever came from a government-owned industry.
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Sorrel adds a unique grassy sharpness to salads and dressings, but it can be hard to come by.
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Oh I wish that I could paint again. Paint is an instrument without which I cannot survive for any length of time. Whenever I even think of gray, green and white, I am overcome with quivers of lust. Then I wish that this war would end and that I might paint again.
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She wanted to leave, she wanted to lie alone face down on her bed and savor the vile piquancy of the moment, and go back down the lines of branching consequences to the point before the destruction began. She needed to contemplate with eyes closed the full richness of what she had lost, what she had given away, and to anticipate the new regime.
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Life is the leaves which shape and nourish a plant, but art is the flower which embodies its meaning
