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«Any person who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved, has already defined his own limitations»
«Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian -- ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.»
Author: Lytton Strachey
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Keywords:
clarified,
clarifies,
clarifying,
historian,
omit,
omits,
omitting,
placid,
requisite,
selects,
simplifies
«Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully»
«Small minds select narrow roads; expand your mental vision and take to the broad road of helpfulness, compassion and service.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
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Spiritual leader)
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Keywords:
broad,
broadest,
broads,
compassion,
expand,
helpfulness,
mental,
narrow,
narrowed,
narrower,
narrowest,
narrowing,
narrows,
narrow mind,
roads,
select,
Selecting,
selects,
take to
«I would not think that philosophy and reason themselves will be man's guide in the foreseeable future; however, they will remain the most beautiful sanctuary they have always been for the select few»
«In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty /he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world /alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(
Critic,
Philosopher,
Scholar)
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Keywords:
alas,
all too,
believes,
bestowed,
bestowing,
cases,
filled,
forgets,
perfection,
select,
Selecting,
selects,
sets,
standard,
The Standard,
worships
«Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society severs»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(
President)
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About:
Art
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Keywords:
above all,
arts,
Creative impulse,
deprived,
deprived of,
flourish,
flourished,
freely,
free people,
impulse,
incarnate,
incarnated,
methods,
objects,
select,
Selecting,
selects,
sever,
severed,
severing,
severs,
spontaneity
«My fee, if I select the subject, is $150; if your committee selects the subject, the charge is $250, but in either case the speech is the same»
«Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in your reading have been like the blast of triumph out of Shakespeare, Seneca, Moses, John and Paul.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(
Essayist,
Lecturer,
Poet)
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Keywords:
blast,
blasted,
blasting,
collect,
collects,
john,
John A,
John D,
Moses,
Paul,
Paul A,
Paul I,
reading,
select,
Selecting,
selects,
Seneca,
sentences,
Shakespeare,
triumph
«Freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected, - these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(
Author,
President)
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About:
Freedom
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Keywords:
bright,
constellation,
corpus,
freedom of religion,
freedom of the press,
habeas corpus,
impartially,
juries,
press,
principles,
protection,
protections,
selected,
Selecting,
selects,
the press,
trial