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- Originality is not seen in single words or even sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904 - 1991), New York Times Magazine, Mar. 12, 1978
- Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD)
- Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated.
- Auguste Rodin
- The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.
- Auguste Rodin
- Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
- Auguste Rodin
- To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.
- Saint Augustine (354 AD - 430 AD)
- Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
- Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 - 1964)
- A theory must be tempered with reality.
- Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 - 1964)
- The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
- Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 - 1964)
- There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.
- Lionel Trilling, The Liberal Imagination (1950)
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