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It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

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Art is limitation; the essence of every picture is the frame. If you draw a giraffe, you must draw him with a long neck. If in your bold creative way you hold yourself free to draw a giraffe with a short neck, you will really find that you are not free to draw a giraffe.

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If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

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The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all.

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Humour is meant, in a literal sense, to make game of man; that is, to dethrone him from his official dignity and hunt him like game.

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...It's natural to believe in the supernatural. It never feels natural to accept only natural things.

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the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul.

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There is a certain poetic value, and that a genuine one, in this sense of having missed the full meaning of things. There is beauty, not only in wisdom, but in this dazed and dramatic ignorance.

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And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.

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It is much easier to write a good Times leading article than a good joke in Punch.

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Science is the study of the admitted laws of existence, which cannot prove a universal negative about whether those laws could ever be suspended by something admittedly above them. It is as if we were to say that a lawyer was so deeply learned in the American Constitution that he knew there could never be a revolution in America.

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Gratitude produced the most purely joyful moments that have been known to man.

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The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

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A naked moon stood in a naked sky.

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Christianity, whatever else it is, is an explosion. Unless it is sensational there is simply no sense in it. Unless the Gospel sounds like a gun going off it has not been uttered at all.

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I have formed a very clear conception of patriotism. I have generally found it thrust into the foreground by some fellow who has something to hide in the background. I have seen a great deal of patriotism; and I have generally found it the last refuge of the scoundrel.

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A good man's work is effected by doing what he does, a woman's by being what she is.

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There is more to life than increasing its speed. Gandhi gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it? Richard Bach Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.

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A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

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Honour is a luxury for aristocrats, but it is a necessity for hall-porters.

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