George Sarton Quotes
From the humanistic point of view every human achievement is unforgettable and immortal in its essence, even if it is replaced by a "better" one.
Quotes to Explore
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It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.
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I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.
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Maybe entertainment is not supposed to be reality.
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I've dated girls that aren't, this is gonna sound so horrible, that aren't super smart, but they still are super confident, and that's more what I've been attracted to is the confidence and the sense of humor.
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Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.
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To create a work of art is to create the world.
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There's too many sounds in the world! The sounds of the earth are terrible! The roots squeezing and jostling one another through the clefts, and the crashing of the acorn from the oak. The cry of the little birdeen in under the silence of the hawk!
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I don't believe that I should just do A-movies, I just do the work as an artist.
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To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.
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I love sports - if I'm not acting, I'm probably doing sports.
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Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?
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I'm still one of those persons who prefers to wear pants, especially for at-home entertaining.
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And if there is one thing that he and this year’s anniversary should teach us, if there’s one lesson I hope that Malia and Sasha and young people everywhere learn from this day, it’s that with enough effort, and enough empathy, and enough perseverance, and enough courage, people who love their country can change it.
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I have said it before and I will say it again: Impeachment is off the table.
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You do not win by struggling to the top of a caste system, you win by refusing to be trapped within one at all.
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There is almost no marital problem that can't be helped enormously by taking off your clothes.
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Don't be so amazing or I'll miss you too much.
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When I get anxious and scared, I probably lose my temper more than I should.
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Passion is the driver of achievement in all fields. Some people love doing things they don't feel they're good at. That may be because they underestimate their talents or haven't yet put the work in to develop them.
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Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world; and this is not a woman's province in a married state. Her sphere of action is not large, and if she is not taught to look into her own heart, how trivial are her occupations and pursuits! What little arts engross and narrow her mind!
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Accept the priceless gift - the joy of work. Apply the greatest value in life: love people and serve them. You will attract big and generous portions of success.
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Oscar Wilde quite rightly said, 'All art is useless'. And that may sound as if that means it's something not worth supporting. But if you actually think about it, the things that matter in life are useless. Love is useless. Wine is useless. Art is the love and wine of life. It is the extra, without which life is not worth living.
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The point of life is to transcend the smallness of the finite self by identifying with things that last.
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From the humanistic point of view every human achievement is unforgettable and immortal in its essence, even if it is replaced by a "better" one.
