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“Without an elite in the arts, we have no leaders, which is to say we have no vision, which is to say we have no arts.”
Source : Robert Brustein (1994). “Dumbocracy in America: Studies in the Theatre of Guilt, 1987-1994”, Ivan R Dee
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“Stop trying to find something in food that will make you feel better.”
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“Living in England, provincial England, must be like being married to a stupid but exquisitely beautiful wife.”
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“I don't worry about it because we are all growing old. If I were the only one I would worry. But we're all in the same boat, and all of my friends are coming with me. We all go toward old age. How many years left we don't know. We just have to accept it.”
Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Humility bids us to take ourselves as we are; we do not have to be cosmically significant to be genuinely significant.”
Source : "Brain-Wise: Studies in Neurophilosophy". Book by Patricia Churchland, 2002.
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“It is a revolution; a revolution of the most intense character; in which belief in the justice, prudence, and wisdom of secession is blended with the keenest sense of wrong and outrage, and it can no more be checked by human effort for the time than a prairie fire by a gardener's watering pot.”
Source : "The Emergence of Lincoln". Book by Allan Nevins, p. 387, 1950.
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“Not many players get three cracks of the cherry.”
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“The carved images on the early Minoan sealstones are tantalising, inscrutable. The Nature Goddess is yanked from the soil like a snake or a sheaf of barley; the Mistress of the Animals suckles goats and gazelles. There are male Adorants certainly - up on tiptoe, their outstretched arms hoisted in a kind of heil, their bodies arched suggestively, pelvis forward, before the Goddess - but there are no masculine deities, not a single one in sight. No woman worth her salt, one might think, could fail to be intrigued.”