"Art, not less eloquently than literature, teaches her children to venerate the single eye. Remember Matsys. His representations of miser-life are breathing. A forfeited bond twinkles in the hard smile. But follow him to an altar-piece. His Apostle has caught a stray tint from his usurer. Features of exquisite beauty are seen and loved; but the old nature of avarice frets under the glow of devotion. Pathos staggers on the edge of farce."

-- Robert Aris Willmott

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“Ideas don't make you rich. The correct execution of ideas does.”

Source : Felix Dennis (2008). “How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets”, p.70, Penguin
“American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.”

Source : "Tom Hooper: the man who doesn't need Oscar". Interview with Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2011.
“The boundary between ourselves and other people and between ourselves and Nature, is illusion. Oneness is reality.”
“We are not machines exploring the universe, we are people.”
“When a child is born the mother also is born again.”

Source : Gilbert Parker (1913). “The lane that had no turning and other associated tales concerning the people of Pontiac. Parables of a province”
“When it comes to finances, remember that there are no withholding taxes on the wages of sin.”
“Have you beheld a man skillful in his work? Before kings is where he will station himself; he will not station himself before commonplace men.”
“Silence - Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.”

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