"The Nazis hated culture itself, because it is essentially international and therefore subversive of nationalism. What they called Nazi culture was a local, perverted, nationalistic cult, by which a few major artists and many minor ones were honored for their Germanness, not their talent."

-- Christopher Isherwood

#Artist Quotes #Culture Quotes #Talent Quotes

“You may lose again and again... and again because you always think of success, but you can have success because you never think of it but concentrating your right work only.”
“Money spent on vegetative patients is money not spent on preventive care, such as flu shots and mammograms. Each night in an ICU bed for such patients is a night that another patient with a genuine prognosis for recovery is denied such high-end care. Every dollar exhausted on patients who will never wake up again is a dollar not devoted to finding a cure for cancer.”
“If I had grown up in any place but New Orleans, I don't think my career would have taken off. I wouldn't have heard the music that was around this town. There was so much going on when I was a kid.”
“Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned...”
“I'm a mess of unfinished thoughts.”
“So false is faction, and so smooth a liar, As that it never had a side entire.”

Source : Samuel Daniel, George Sewell (1718). “The Poetical Works of Mr. Samuel Daniel, Author of the English History: To which is Prefix'd, Memoirs of His Life and Writings..”, p.232
“I divide my time between homes in Arizona and England, six months a year in each place.”
“We profess to be republicans, and yet we neglect the only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government; that is, the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by means of the Bible; for this divine book, above all others, favors that equality among mankind, that respect for just laws, and all those sober and frugal virtues which constitute the soul of republicanism.”

Source : Benjamin Rush (1988). “Essays: Literary, Moral and Philosophical”, Union College

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