Baker Brownell quotes
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“Though we live amid promiscuous pressures, spiritual clutter and forgetfulness, we probably still value the integrity of life.”
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“Art matures. It is the formal elaboration of activity, complete in its own pattern. It is a cosmos of its own.”
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“Art arises in those strange complexities of action that are called human beings. It is a kind of human behavior. As such it is not magic, except as human beings are magical. Nor is it concerned in absolutes, eternities, "forms," beyond those that may reside in the context of the human being and be subject to his vicissitudes. Art is not an inner state of consciousness, whatever that may mean. Neither is it essentially a supreme form of communication. Art is human behavior, and its values are contained in human behavior.”
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“Dance ... is life, or becomes it, in a way that other arts cannot attain. It is not in stone, or words or tones, but in our muscles. It is a formulation of their movements.”
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“A disciple serves the spiritual master with the sole purpose of getting instructions from him.”
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“We have now recently launched the national integrity plan.”
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“You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.”
Source : "Faith in Liberalism". Address to the State Committee of the Liberal Party in New York City, August 28, 1952.
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“Lying is done with words and also with silence.”
Source : Adrienne Rich (2002). “Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations”, p.20, W. W. Norton & Company
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“I don’t think any relationship responds well to pressure.”
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Source : "MAKING ENDS MEET / The well-off are better off, but the ranks of the poor are growing, and middle- and low-income workers feel pressure of high prices" by Jason B. Johnson, www.sfgate.com. September 28, 2005.
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