Charles Dickens Quotes
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This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting.
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A phoenix, Beirut seems to always pull itself out its ashes, reinvents itself, has been conquered numerous times in its 7,000-year history, yet it survives by both becoming whatever its conquerors wished it to be and retaining its idiosyncratic persona.
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My recipes aren't geared towards women; my books are marketed towards women because women are the biggest market for weight loss, weight management and weight maintenance and for cooking.
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The dualism itself becomes a sort of presupposition or datum; its terms condition the further problem.
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The vast preponderance of evidence in modern epidemiology shows that those who eat more whole plant foods and fewer animal products and processed foods have lower rates of chronic disease and longer lifespans.
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I research every possible bit of information I can find. Then I use about a tenth of it. But I have to know all the information first; otherwise, I'm not going to convince myself, and if I can't convince myself, then I'm not going to convince the reader.
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I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.
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All you need is something to say, and a burning desire to say it... it doesn't matter where your hands are.
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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.
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A good daguerreotype was as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made.
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I think they're all trying to see who can walk through the coldest or hottest shower. Not sure which.
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To make war all you need is intelligence. But to win you need talent and material.
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Art is not politics. The glory of the novel is that in its essence, it is a democratic form, because it treats individuals as worthy of scrutiny. That alone is a kind of political act. A good novel about a tea party of rich women can be just as galvanizing and important to the soul as War and Peace, so I think it's not really the job of artists to do anything. They can have their opinions as private citizens, but they must continue making their art.
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My little brother and I took piano lessons at a young age and played music together later on in life just to play around at home until we decided to make a record. Eventually we started having more and more songs.
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... she indulged in melancholy - that cheapest and most accessible of luxuries.
