"To be able to translate the customs, ideas and appearance of my times as I see them - in a word, to create a living art - this has been my aim."

-- Gustave Courbet

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“The only very rugged part of the route is in crossing the Big Horn mountain, which is about 30 miles wide.”
“America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention.”

Source : "Confucius (and Mark Twain) Say: Boycott 'Health Care' and 'Health Care System' Unless That’s What We Mean" by John Weeks, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 26, 2016.
“I was a new writer and I was supposed to write all the time, wasn't I? I had not yet discovered that there are times when one can't write, one shouldn't write, times for thought, for deepening, or just reading, or simply living.”
“My God, give me neither poverty nor riches; but whatsoever it may be Thy will to give, give me with it a heart which knows humbly to acquiesce in what is Thy will.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 161), 1895.
“The bilateral relationship is unshakable, but playing politics with that relationship could blunt Secretary Kerry's enthusiasm for being Israel's primary defender.”
“The memory of past favors is like a rainbow, bright, vivid, and beautiful; but it soon fades away. The in memory of injuries is engraved on the heart, and remains forever.”

Source : Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1859). “Sam Slick's Wise Saws and Modern Instances: Or, What He Said, Did, Or Invented”, p.146
“Just knowing that through my music I actually inspire people is amazing for me and I find it very heartwarming.”
“Agents are nasty scum. They're evil and divisive and pointless. They only survive because the rest of the sport is so corrupt and because leading football club people employ their sons in the job.”

Source : "Rommedahl rewards Charlton's patience" by Jon Brodkin, www.theguardian.com. December 5, 2004.

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