"We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things."

-- Leon Battista Alberti

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“I rarely get mentioned in the same category as these other guys who have come out after me...[b]ut maybe I'm not that, maybe I'm not an Internet rapper.”
“'If he trespass against you seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to you, saying, I repent; you shall forgive him' (Lk. 17:4). As the Searcher of hearts, the Lord knows that men are liable to very frequent trespass, and that, having fallen, they often rise up again; therefore He has given us the commandment to frequently forgive trespasses, and He Himself is the first to fulfill His holy word. As soon as you say from your whole heart, 'I repent,' you will be immediately forgiven.”
“We cannot build county councils based on one single constituency. It doesn't make sense because it does not have a sufficient revenue base to be able to provide the services that county councils are required to provide.”
“Think truly, and thy thoughts shall the world's famine feed.”

Source : Horatius Bonar (1867). “Hymns of Faith and Hope. New edition. [Selected from Series 1-3.]”, p.113
“I have always been a business person.”
“I would like to spend the rest of my days in a place so silentâ€“and working at a pace so slowâ€“that I would be able to hear myself living.”
“I thought that by saying no and explaining my reasons my employer would abandon his social suggestions. However, to my regret, in the following few weeks, he continued to ask me out on several occasions”

Source : Opening Statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee, delivered 11 October 1991, Washington, D.C.
“I think I see her, please let me off this bus. Nadine, honey, is that you?”

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