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“Turn back, turn back,thou pretty bride, Within this house thou must not abide. For here do evil things betide.”
Source : Jacob Grimm, Maria Tatar, Wilhelm Grimm, Tracy Dockray (1997). “Grimm's grimmest”, Chronicle Books Llc
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“She has been hanging on to the hope of him for so long that she doesn't realize there isn't anything left to hope for.”
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“Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues?”
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“The identifying personal association with objects, which are not personal, is an important modern experience - our real association, the strands of our feelings about the objects that surround us. It's also because they are so familiar, we don't think of them as important in the world, but actually they are the world. We are living in a very material world.”
Source : Source: www.artzip.org
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“It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery. These may, perhaps, succeed for once, and borrow for awhile, from hope, a gay and flourishing appearance. But time betrays their weakness, and they fall into ruin of themselves. For, as in structures of every kind, the lower parts should have the greatest firmness--so the grounds and principles of actions should be just and true.”
Source : Demosthenes (1756). “All the orations of Demosthenes, pronounced to excite the Athenians against Philip King of Macedon: Translated into English; digested and connected, so as to form a regular history of the progress of the Macedonian power: with notes historical and critical. By Thomas Leland, ...”, p.26
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“Barack Obama said today that politics has become too gummed up by money and influence ... and then he had to leave to attend a fundraiser.”
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“The pride of life hath corrupted the judgment of others, and perverted them in the way of religion.”
Source : George Gillespie (1846). “The Presbyterian's Armoury”
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“A farm is like a very large and extended baby. It takes a great deal of time and very little mentality.”
Source : Donald Judd (1987). “Complete Writings, 1975-1986”
