"The perfection of art is to conceal art."

-- Quintilian

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“I actually have a closet that's all shoes, maybe 700 pairs.”

Source : "Things We Learned From Russell Westbrook's 'espn' Magazine Interview" by Gaby Wilson, www.mtv.com. April 5, 2013.
“The common man wants nothing of life but health, longevity, amusement, comfort-â€œhappiness.â€ He who does not despise this should turn his eyes from world history, for it contains nothing of the sort. The best that history has created is great suffering.”

Source : Oswald Spengler (1967). “Aphorisms”
“This Constitution does not reflect the thoughts, hopes and aspirations of ordinary people. It does nothing for jobs or economic growth and widens further still the democratic deficit.”
“Death was too definite an object to be wished for or avoided.”
“What good are insights? They only make things worse.”
“Well, at first the band were simply called Horsepower, but a lot of people thought that was something to do with heroin. That really pissed me off, so I decided to put something in front of it to distract them. â€œI got '16' from a traditional American folk song, where a man is singing about his dead wife and 16 black horses are pulling her casket up to the cemetery. I liked the image of 16 working horses.”
“Blogs are for anoraks who couldnâ€™t get published any other way.”

Source : "Editor-At-Large: Blog off... You don't want to know what I weigh today (do you?)" by Janet Street-Porter, www.independent.co.uk. July 23, 2006.
“A government ought to contain in itself every power requisite to the full accomplishment of the objects committed to its care, and to the complete execution of the trusts for which it is responsible, free from every other control but a regard to the public good and to the sense of the people.”

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