"What a conception of art must those theorists have who exclude portraits from the proper province of the fine arts! It is exactly as if we denied that to be poetry in which the poet celebrates the woman he really loves. Portraiture is the basis and the touchstone of historic painting."

-- August Wilhelm von Schlegel

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“Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.”
“Everybody in America is angry about something.”
“You eat and sleep it all day long and play on the streets until mom calls you in. My story is no different than anybody else's.”
“If you want to become the best runner you can be, start now. Don't spend the rest of your life wondering if you can do it.”
“I love failure. It's stuff that I'm thinking about all the time in my life, so it would make sense to me anyway to write about it.”
“I don't like muscles too much. Flexibility and a relaxed look are more important.”
“Rationalism, which is the feeling that everything is subject to and completely explicable by Reason, consequently rejects everything not visible and calculable.”

Source : Francis Parker Yockey (2013). “Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics”, p.272, The Palingenesis Project (Wermod and Wermod Publishing Group)
“Microsoft unleashed something called Bob, a program that's supposed to make Windows easier to use. Until a Bob helper is born, you can look forward to reading - I swear this is true - Microsoft Bob for Dummies.”

Source : "Computers & Technology" by Joshua Quittner, www.sfgate.com. June 11, 1995.

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