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“Cities are the least permanent things in our civilization.”
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“The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.”
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“For an idea that does not first seem insane, there is no hope.”
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“Everybody faces obstacles. And I looked to people who had been through many to succeed in life. Abraham Lincoln, born to a poor family, faced defeat through most of his life. Lost eight elections, failed two businesses, had a nervous breakdown, and still became president.”
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“When I sit down to make a sketch from nature, the first thing I try to do is to forget that I have ever seen a picture.”
Source : John E. Thornes, John Constable (1999). “John Constable's Skies: A Fusion of Art and Science”, p.51, A&C Black
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“He who can not support himself, can not take his own decision”
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“Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads.”
Source : Horace Walpole, Peter Cunningham (1857). “The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Oxford”, p.371
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“Fischer was a master of clarity and a king of artful positioning. His opponents would see where he was going but were powerless to stop him”
