George Saintsbury Quotes
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We refuse to recognize problems of form, but only problems of building. Form is not the aim of our work, but only the result. Form, by itself, does not exist. Form as an aim is formalism; and that we reject.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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You've got to dance like nobody's watching, and love like it's never going to hurt.
Kathy Mattea
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I think they're all trying to see who can walk through the coldest or hottest shower. Not sure which.
Jeff Long
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For this I see, that we, all we that live, Are but vain shadows, unsubstantial dreams.
Sophocles
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Since all of us desire to be happy, and since we evidently become so on account of our use — that is our good use — of other things, and since knowledge is what provides this goodness of use and also good fortune, every man must, as seems plausible, prepare himself by every means for this: to be as wise as possible. Right?
Socrates
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The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.
Francis Bacon
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I have been the struggler of the century. Fortunately, everyone loves the underdog.
Kangana Ranaut
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We are about half a century away from being ecologically and economically bankrupt because of global warming.
Andrew Simms
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I think what's going to happen with linear television is it's going to become more linear. It's going to become more about events and more about award shows, live sports - all those things that, really, you can't replicate.
Ted Sarandos
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I don't remember who was there, except Dora. I have not the least idea what we had for dinner, besides Dora. My impression is, that I dined off Dora, entirely, and sent away half-a-dozen plates untouched. I sat next to her. I talked to her. She had the most delightful little voice, the gayest little laugh, the pleasantest and most fascinating little ways, that ever led a lost youth into hopeless slavery. She was rather diminutive altogether. So much the more precious, I thought.
Charles Dickens
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But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.
George Saintsbury