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Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist.

Artist Based Fairytale Fiction
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Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

Arthritis Connection Different Discouragement
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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

Cheat Come Conditions Deeper
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I will not be making appointments to a committee that is not bipartisan.

Appointments Bipartisan Committee Making
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The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.

Choosing Faithfully Men Notice
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I think that young Australians ought to be taking language education much more seriously. I mean, you know, every day I'm meeting people with expertise, ability and talent in fields where I want to learn so much more; science, for example.

Ability Australians Day Education
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The aboriginal women leaders of Papunya - the Papunya Artists - performed a dance for me: the Honey Ant dance. They'd never done it for anyone else. They honoured me with a ceremonial stick that signifies the story of the land.

Aboriginal Ant Anyone Anyone Else
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Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone's satisfaction.

Able Believe Define Everyone
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In life, you should never be satisfied with one achievement. The day you become satisfied with where you are is the beginning of your end.

Life Day Become Satisfied
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I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them.

Artist Consumers Real Them
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An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

Actual Artist Consenting Dream
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Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions.

Behavior Committed Culture Deprivation
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A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.

Bar Chief Complacent Knowledge
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Some men say that they should be satisfied with the abolition of untouchability only, leaving the caste system alone. The aim of abolition of untouchability alone without trying to abolish the inequalities inherent in the caste system is a rather low aim.

Abolish Abolition Aim Alone
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A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

Accepted Been Excited Fugitive
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There's absolutely no reason at all that physicians, scientists, shouldn't be involved in things that affect all of us.

Absolutely Affect Involved Physicians
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Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.

Attention Corrected Facts Mistakes
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The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

Anything Disregard Economics Enough
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When people don't have a hopeful vision before them or the possible resolution of their difficulties by peaceful means, then they can be attracted to violence and to separatism.

Attracted Before Difficulties Hopeful
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The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.

Any Because Explanation Happen
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Fifty percent of all meaningful education takes place in the home. What do you share with your child? You share your interests. I was a book person. I read with my son. My wife is an artist. She dragged his little butt around to museums. He's an illustrator of children's books.

Book Books Child Children
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'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.

Begin Common Disease Either
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The doctor who applied a stethoscope to my heart was not satisfied. I was told to get my papers with the clerk in the outer hall. I was medically rejected.

Applied Clerk Doctor Get
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When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one will ever ask.

Catalogue Die Ever Head
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Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic.

Also Animal Brains Egotistical
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Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.

Despotism Called May Government
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Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Discontent Failure First Man
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If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

Another Desire Experience Explanation
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It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Better Delusion Far Grasp
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I believe in pulling together to make the country better right rather than pulling, tearing it apart for partisan reasons. I think the country comes first.

Apart Believe Better Country
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An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

Artist Hard Intellectual Says
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My days, my years, my life has seen up and downs, lights and darknesses. If I wrote only and continually of the 'light' and never mentioned the other, then as an artist, I would be a liar.

Artist Continually Liar Life
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For a while, I was nervous about portraying women because of the objectification that automatically comes with it, whether the artist intends or not.

About Artist Automatically Because
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Being a black artist, the first thing people want to talk about is your blackness, the importance of your blackness, and your black presence.

About Artist Being Black
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Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.
Despotism Force Immediate Parent
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The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.

Artist Does Excellence Goes
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When you have a sense of calling, whether it's to be a musician, soloist, artist, in one of the technical fields, or a plumber, there is something deep and enriching when you realize it isn't just a casual choice, it's a divine calling. It's not limited to vocational Christian service by any means.

Artist Calling Casual Choice
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If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.

Eat God He Invented
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I do think there is an important artistic component in what we do. As a technology company I've tried to really stress that.

Artistic Company Component Important
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No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.

Artist Carries Composition Head
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I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Approve Brave Business Conduct
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Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

Art Artist Experienced Feeling
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The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.

Cruel Founded Greater More
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When enough people care about autism or diabetes or global warming, it helps everyone, even if only a tiny fraction actively participate.

About Actively Autism Care
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The '80s was a really creative and brave period. Remember, it was a period of ultraconservatism, and so you needed brave people to push ahead like that.

Ahead Brave Creative Like
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I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

Approve Brave Business Conduct
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'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

Approve Business Conduct Conscience
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When you are on the management side, you still have to understand the artistic sensibility so that there is a dialogue with the creative side.

Artistic Creative Dialogue Management
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I'm skeptical of any mission that has advertisers at its centerpiece.

Advertiser Any Mission Skeptical
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I'm not a very creative person, you know? I'm not really an art person. I'm not a great reader or writer or artist or musician.

Art Artist Creative Creative Person
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