"My business is to preach to you the beauty of suitability."

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Source : Elsie De Wolfe (1975). “The house in good taste”, Ayer Co Pub

Elsie de Wolfe

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“Wikileaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform.”
“Nothing is complete and thus nothing is exempt from criticism.”

Source : James Luther Adams (1976). “On being human religiously: selected essays in religion and society”, Beacon Press (MA)
“Many French directors, having now realised there was no more real criticism, that the standards of the past have gone, are very offended about the quality of film criticism.”
“Go in and get us a shrunken head!”

Source : Ellen Schreiber (2010). “Vampire Kisses: The Beginning”, p.15, Allen & Unwin
“Those who say that the West and Islam are eternally irreconcilable have more in common with the Islam extremists than they might like to think, for it's the very same argument of course advanced by Al-Qaida. And they do have it wrong. We need to work with mainstream Islam.”
“The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy.”
“When Fidel Castro is gone, there will be hope for Cuba. There will be opportunity for Cuba.”

Source : "Florida Rep. Carlos Curbelo Weighs In On Future Of U.S.-Cuba Relations". Interview with Ari Shapiro, wksu.org. November 29, 2016.
“Thing, body, matter, are nothing apart from the combinations of the elements, - the colours, sounds, and so forth - nothing apart from their so-called attributes.”

Source : Ernst Mach (1996). “The analysis of sensations”

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