Marc Chagall

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If theres a clash between the two, its bad art.

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Golda Meir

The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.

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James L. Hayes, Memos for Management: Leadership, 1983

Jingshen is the Mandarin word for spirit and vivacity. It is an important word for those who would lead, because above all things, spirit and vivacity set effective organizations apart from those that will decline and die.

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Johann von Goethe

Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.

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David Letterman

Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines.

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oscar wilde, Quoted in Ellmann

It often happens that the real tragedies in life occur in such an inarticulate manner that they hurt one by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.

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Sir Thomas More, Utopia, Book 1

For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.

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Margaret "Stevie" Smith

If I had been the Virgin Mary, I would have said No.

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H. L. Mencken

And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps.

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Hughes Mearns

As I was going up the stairI met a man who wasn't thereHe wasn't there again todayI wish, I wish he'd stay away.

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William Shakespeare

I dote on his very absence.

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