"Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius."

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Source : 'Discourses on Art' (ed. R. Wark, 1975) no. 3 (14 December 1770)

Joshua Reynolds

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“Award trophies, as opposed to letting the players define and claim their own. Ultimately, pay them to play so that their activity not only resembles work but is work.”
“Information imposes certain criteria on how it can be stored.”
“Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language.”
“The end of exile is the end of being.”
“In Jesus Christ on the Cross, there is refuge; there is safety; there is shelter; and all the power of sin upon our track cannot reach us when we have taken shelter under the Cross that atones for our sins.”

Source : a.c.dixon (1962). “the glories of the cross”
“When you're researching things that have happened, the clear narrative arc is not there already. This is the problem of writing nonfiction for me - writing nonfiction which is about serious subjects and has serious political and social points to make, yet which is meant to be popular to a degree - what happens when the facts don't fit a convenient narrative arc? I guess that for a lot of nonfiction writers that is a central challenge.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Even championship-winning teams don't play well all the time.”

Source : "Cool-head Ted" by Paul Wilson, www.theguardian.com. June 8, 2002.
“There's nothing in all the world as much fun as talk. When you're talking, that is, with the right person.”

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