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- Any great work of art . . . revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world -- the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.
- Leonard Bernstein (1918 - 1990)
- To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich, to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly, to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart, to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never, in a word to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common, this is to be my symphony.
- William Henry Channing
- Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
It is the source of all art and science. - Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
- Dorothy Nevill
- A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.
- General Douglas MacArthur (1880 - 1964)
- Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
- Unknown
- The fruits of all our labors have left us as we started. To grow without is not to grow within.
- Dave Winer
- Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
- Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)
- Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 - 1864)
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