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“Ideas have consequences, and totally erroneous ideas are likely to have destructive consequences.”
Source : Steve Allen (1993). “More Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion and Morality”
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“I have this strength that comes from knowledge.”
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“An improper art aims at exciting in the way of comedy the feeling of desire but the feeling which is proper to comic art is the feeling of joy.”
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“Unfathomable mind: now beacon, now sea.”
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“My blessed California, you are so wise. You render death abstract, efficient, clean. Your afterlife is only real estate, And in his kingdom Death must stay unseen.”
Source : Dana Gioia (2016). “99 Poems: New & Selected”, p.49, Macmillan
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“Set up your study or picture in an orderly fashion. This order should not cramp either the linearist or the colorist... Never lose sight of that first impression by which you were moved.”
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“Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.”
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“You get NOWT for being second.”