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Beauty is no quality in things themselves: it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them.: David Hume (1711 - 1776)
Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
My driving abilities from Mexico have helped me get through Hollywood.: Salma Hayek
I'm a bit of an abstract figure that people can project their fantasies on; it's pretty much what we all are, otherwise we wouldn't be stars, and people wouldn't be interested. But people project things on you that have nothing to do with what you really are, or they see a little something and then exaggerate it. And you can't really control that.: Salma Hayek
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Must, bid the Morn awake! Sad Winter now declines, Each bird doth choose a mate; This day's Saint Valentine's. For that good bishop's sake Get up and let us see What beauty it shall be That Fortune us assigns.: Michael Drayton (1563 - 1631)
A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?: George Orwell (1903 - 1950), "Politics and the English Language", 1946
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Political language -- and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists -- is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.: George Orwell (1903 - 1950), "Politics and the English Language", 1946
As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.: Michel Foucault (1926 - 1984)
To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Critic as Artist
Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what actually happened, but of what men believe happened.: Gerald White Johnson, American Heroes and Hero-Worships, Chapter 1

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