"I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful."

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Source : Quoted in Charles Robert Leslie, Memoirs of the Life of John Constable (1843)

John Constable

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“Well, intuition isn't much help in police work. Facts are what we need.”
“I haven't had a family, but I don't think of that as a sacrifice: my dancers are my family.”

Source : "Portrait of the artist". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2007.
“Religious doctrines â€¦ are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them.”
“Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.â€¦ You ask for votes for women. What good can votes do when ten-elevenths of the land of Great Britain belongs to 200,000 and only one-eleventh to the rest of the 40,000,000? Have your men with their millions of votes freed themselves from this injustice?”
“Nothing is so fierce but love will soften; nothing so sharp-sighted in other matters but it will throw a mist before its eyes.”
“Leadership requires creating conditions that enable employees to do the kinds of experimentation that entrepreneurship requires.”

Source : Eric Ries (2011). “The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses”, p.35, Crown Business
“In England, I'm this venerable old granddad, the one who always gets pissed at parties and puts a lampshade on his head.”
“Food is exacting. The face is truly a canvas upon which our food choices paint an accurate picture. The body is truly a sculpture, chiseled and polished by our food choices.”

Source : David Wolfe (2011). “Eating for Beauty”, p.12, North Atlantic Books

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