Euan Uglow Quotes
I am trying to find out why a subject does look so marvelous, and trying to make that sensation manifest on a flat surface.
Euan Uglow
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Beauty, midnight, vision dies: Let the winds of dawn that blow Softly round your dreaming head Such a day of welcome show Eye and knocking heart may bless, Find our mortal world enough; Noons of dryness find you fed By the involuntary powers, Nights of insult let you pass Watched by every human love.
W. H. Auden
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Why do men seek honour? Surely in order to confirm the favorable opinion they have formed of themselves.
Aristotle
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The degree and duration of the torment of these degenerate and anti-Christian people, should be no other than would be approved of by those angels who had ever labored for their salvation, and that Lamb who had redeemed them with his most precious blood.
Isaac Newton
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When a man comes to me, I accept him at his best, not at his worst. Why make so much ado? When a man washes his hands before paying a visit, and you receive him in that clean state, you do not thereby stand surety for his always having been clean in the past.
Confucius
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Anti-Semitism, as an extreme form of racial chauvinism, is the most dangerous vestige of cannibalism.
Joseph Stalin
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I do not think an enormous permanent underclass is a very good thing to have if you're attempting to operate something that at least pretends sometimes to be a democracy.
William Gibson
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The government doesn't have any money. The only power it has is to take from some and give to others.
Milton Friedman
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I am unable, when I turn to myself, to recognize any of my faculties or my capacities. The inner sensation which I have of myself informs me that I am, that I think, that I will, that I have sensory awareness, that I suffer, and so on; but it provides me with no knowledge whatever of what I am - of the nature of my thought, my sensations, my passions, or my pain - or the mutual relations that obtain between all these things ... I have no idea whatever of my soul.
Nicolas Malebranche
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If you do not know who you are, the stock market is an expensive place to find out.
Edwin Lefevre
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If you interview five people about the same incident, and you see five different points of view, it makes you know what makes history so complicated. Something doesn't just occur. It's not like a scientific event. It's a human event. So the dimensions of it will be seen differently by different people.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Artists are the gate keepers of truth. We are civilization’s radical voice.
Paul Robeson
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I am trying to find out why a subject does look so marvelous, and trying to make that sensation manifest on a flat surface.
Euan Uglow
