"Beauty always takes place in the particular, and if there are no particulars, the chances of seeing it go down"

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Source : Elaine Scarry (2013). “On Beauty and Being Just”, p.18, Princeton University Press

Elaine Scarry

#Chance Quotes #Particular Quotes

“Children are naive-they trust everyone. School is bad enough, but, if you put a child anywhere in the vicinity of a church, you're asking for trouble.”
“That is an important part of my success. Another big part of my success is that I hated not to finish a race.”
“As an athlete, I understood the value of my health insurance. I knew that in my profession, injuries were common and could happen at any time.”
“I want to be left alone.”
“Even when governments take the right steps to reform, these can be negatively impacted by events outside their control.”
“Anyone writing a picture-book biography of Lincoln has a different set of responsibilities from someone writing a biography for sixth-graders, say, or from a Lincoln scholar writing an academic book on Lincoln. Each of these writers has a different audience and different goals. That's obvious.”
“We can put our head in the sand and continue to lose jobs overseas and to other states, or we can say, 'You know what? We are not going to lose another job from California, and we're going to be the very best place to start and grow a business.' So I'll be the chief sales officer for California businesses.”

Source : "The Kudlow Report" with Larry Kudlow, www.cnbc.com. July 16, 2010.
“Ah, words are poor receipts for what time hath stole away...”

Source : John Clare, “Remembrances”

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