Charles Rennie Mackintosh Quotes
There is hope in honest error; none in the icy perfections of the mere stylist
Quotes to Explore
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People often believe that character causes action, but when it comes to producing moral children, we need to remember that action also shapes character.
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So far as female beauty is concerned, the Circassian women have no superiors. They have preserved in their mountain home the purity of the Grecian models, and still display the perfect physical loveliness, whose type has descended to us in the Venus de Medici.
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The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
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Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.
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I love the French horn.
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I did a crazy version of 'Romeo and Juliet' once, and I played Romeo.
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I really believe that all CEO pay should be voted on by shareholders ahead of time. Mine was.
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Everybody thinks I'm very clean and sort of upright, don't they?
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If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
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I didn't really want to be the coach who wins but the coach who educates.
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Alinsky's 1971 book, 'Rules for Radicals,' is a favorite of the Obamas. Michele Obama quoted it at the Democratic Convention. One Alinsky tactic is to 'Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.' That's what the White House did in targeting Rush Limbaugh, Rick Santelli and Jim Cramer.
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I love being on the road, I love playing.
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Chin up, shoulders back. Let ‘em know you’re here. #ProudOfWhoYouAre
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One of the key things about the entitlement and power of patriarchy, but also within feminism, is not that it's wilful nastiness. But you can't ask for permission. You can negotiate and you can bring people on board and you can build a base but you can't expect for it to be given.
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I also do political cartoons, but a lot of them must stay, as they say, under the coat. But they are very fun to do, and in France, we have a good subject at the moment.
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I come across famous people all the time. It's the respect factor I appreciate. They respect me, they respect what I've achieved and the manner I've done it. It's street credibility. They know where I'm coming from, they know my reputation.
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When I was a fairly precocious young man I became thoroughly impressed with the futility of the hopes and strivings that chase most men restlessly through life. Moreover, I soon discovered the cruelty of that chase, which in those years was much more carefully covered up by hypocrisy and glittering words than is the case today. By the mere existence of his stomach everyone was condemned to participate in that chase. The stomach might well be satisfied by such participation, but not man insofar as he is a thinking and feeling being.
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We do want to drive out the beast in man, but we do not want on that account to emasculate him.
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Atheist is really ʺa thoroughly honest, unambiguous term,ʺ it admits of no paltering and of no evasion, and the need of the world, now as ever, is for clear - cut issues and unambiguous speech.
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As honest as you could expect a man to be in a world where it's out of style.
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There is hope in honest error; none in the icy perfections of the mere stylist
