"The development that produces great art is a moral and not an aesthetic development."

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Source : "Italian Report" by Patrick Swift, for the Committee of Cultural Relations, Dept of External Affairs, December 1955.

Patrick Swift

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“State Farm is pleased to support the Common Core State Standards Initiative. State by State adoption of these standards is an important step towards maintaining our country s competitive edge. With a skilled and prepared workforce, the business community will be better prepared to face the challenges of the international marketplace.”
“Perhaps we become aware of our existence only when we feel on our skin the touch of a place that has no name, that connects us to the earliest time, to all the dead, to prehistory, when the mind first stood apart from the world, still unaware that it was orphaned.”

Source : Andrzej Stasiuk, Petra Hardt (2011). “On the Road to Babadag: Travels in the Other Europe”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Things that bring out your emotions are what should be in theaters and in books. That's what art is. It makes you feel things.”
“I used to sing when I was younger. I left it alone for a long time, 'cause I was like, I don't even know if I know how to sing for real.”

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“Enjoy the peace your valor won. Let independence be our boast, Ever mindful what it cost; Ever grateful for the prize, Let its altar reach the skies!”
“What plagues people is not those who don't love them, but those who do.”
“Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-class citizenship for me and my kind.”
“I am talking about misery and all of its implications.”

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