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Give your goods to the poor: Christ. Property is theft - as long as it's not mine: Marx .
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I am in favour of leaving people alone, however imperfect their polity may seem. It appears to me that you must not tell other nations how to set their house in order; nor must you compel them to be happy.
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Many of my poems try to use a comic element to reach a place that isn't comic at all. The comic element works as a surprise. It is unexpected and energizing.
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If you can't join them, beat them.
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Many people never reach greater because they don't leave good enough behind.
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Modern architecture is not a style, it's an attitude
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Industry is not only the instrument of improvement, but the foundation of pleasure. He who is a stranger to it may possess, but cannot enjoy, for it is labor only which gives relish to pleasure. It is the indispensable condition of possessing a sound mind in a sound body, and it is the appointed vehicle of every good to man.
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Does pain go away and leave no trace, then?’ ‘You sometimes even feel sentimental for it.
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Anyone who wants to be a leader must be the servant, not the boss, of those he wants to serve.
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Ancient portraits are symbolic images without any immediate relation to the individuals represented; they are not portraits as we understand them. ...It is remarkable that philologists who are capable of carrying accuracy to the extremes in the case of words are as credulous as babies when it comes to "images," and yet an image is so full of information that ten thousands words would not add up to it.
