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“The artist draws a picture of a rose very nicely with all attention and artistic sense, and yet it does not become as perfect as the real rose. If that is the real fact, how can we say that the real rose has taken its shape without Intelligence behind the beauty?”
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“Those who can bring themselves to renounce wealth, position and power accruing from a social system based on violence and putting a premium on acquisitiveness, and to identify themselves in some real fashion with the struggle of the masses toward the light, may help in a measure - more, doubtless, by life than by words - to devise a more excellent way, a technique of social progress less crude, brutal, costly and slow than mankind has yet evolved.”
Source : "American Power and the New Mandarins". Book by Noam Chomsky, 1969.
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“Subtle, funny and touching, with a striking downbeat authenticity. Director Craig Zobel is the real thing.”
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“The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but waiting for a real live artist to splash them onto canvas . . . Chop your own path. Get off the car track.”
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“You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.”
Source : A.A. Gill (2007). “AA Gill is Away”, p.46, Simon and Schuster
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“God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.”
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“And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.”
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“The main Objective of any operation in an open file is the eventual Occupation of the seventh or eighth Rank.”
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“I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do operation on someone else, not you.”
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“If I cannot trust someone's judgment, I cannot ask others to do so, and I would not place him at the head of my political operation.”
