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- The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explination.
- Hilton Kramer, The New York Times art critic, in the late 1960
- I look foreword to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Remarks upon receiving an honorary degree, Amherst College, October 26, 1963
- What counts now is not just what we are against, but what we are for. Who leads us is less important than what leads us-what convictions, what courage, what faith-win or lose. A man doesn't save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principal can.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), Welcoming address before the Democratic national convention, Chicago, Illinois, July 21, 1952
- I do think imperfection's underrated.
- Helena Bonham Carter
- Nothing can do what a book can do. Lifts you out of your life... to a whole new world, whole new perspective. A book is like a dream you're borrowing from a friend.
- Dave Kellett, Sheldon, 08-15-2011
- I do the very best I know how-the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), Francis Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, 1867
- Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.
- Charles W. Eliot (1834 - 1926), The Happy Life
- All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.
- Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961), Old Newsman Writes, Esquire, December 1934
- The administration is not sympathetic to corporations, it is indentured to corporations.
- Ralph Nader (1934 - ), News conference, October 3, 1972, speaking about the Nixon Administration
- It is probably true that business corrupts everything it touches. It corrupts politics, sports, literature, art, labor unions and so on. but business also corrupts and undermines monolithic totalitarianism. Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983), The New York Times Magazine
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