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- Somewhere deep down we know that in the final analysis we do decide things and that even our decisions to let someone else decide are really our decisions, however pusillanimous.
- Harvey Cox, On Not Leaving It to the Snake, 1967
- I'm having a glorious old age. One of my greatest delights is that I have outlived most of my opposition.
- Maggie Kuhn, Speech to Vermont state legislature, 1991
- Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked.
- Pearl S. Buck, China, Past and Present, 1972
- An authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
- Rebecca West (1892 - 1983), The Count and the Castle, 1957
- If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Speech at Amherst College, October 26, 1963
- There is no better deliverance from the world than through art; and a man can form no surer bond with it than through art.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832), Elective Affinities
- Without art the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Back to Methuselah, 1921
- Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden, 1854
- The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will; and the other from a strong won't.
- Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887), Seven Lectures to a Young Man, 1844
- Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), First Inaugural Adress, 1801
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