"We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dream life."

Mamet, David on audiences   

"Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so."

Butler, Samuel on justice   

"The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute."

Fulbright, J. William on patriotism   

"The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force."

Einstein, Albert on class
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"Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down."

Huntingdon, Collis P. on possessions   

"Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office."

Aesop on respectability
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"Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due."

Cleaver, Eldridge on respectability
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"All the gods are dead except the god of war."

Cleaver, Eldridge on god   

"The injuries we do and the injuries we suffer are seldom weighed on the same scales."

Aesop on pain
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"Two great talkers will not travel far together."

Proverb, Spanish on speakers and speaking   

"To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic."

Picasso, Pablo on imitation
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"It is your work in life that is your ultimate seduction."

Picasso, Pablo on purpose
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"The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima."

Picasso, Pablo on genius
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"Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time."

Picasso, Pablo on individuality
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"Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction."

Picasso, Pablo on action
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"An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought."

Picasso, Pablo on ideas
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"Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness."

Picasso, Pablo on taste
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"Everything you can imagine is real."

Picasso, Pablo on imagination
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"To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture."

Picasso, Pablo on progress
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"The chief enemy of creativity is good taste."

Picasso, Pablo on creativity
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"Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance."

Saadi on argument
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"I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality."

Dickinson, Emily on love
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"I dwell in Possibility."

Dickinson, Emily on possibilities
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"The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate."

Keats, John on excellence   

"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination."

Keats, John on certainty
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"Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true."

Keats, John on failure
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"Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in."

Burke, Edmund on manners   

"When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing -- deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different."

Galsworthy, John on pity   

"'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support him after."

Shakespeare, William on welfare   

"Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny."

Burke, Edmund on law and lawyers
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"Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair."

Burke, Edmund on doubt
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"Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it."

Newman, Cardinal J. on perfection
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"The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on government   

"Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on adversity
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"We are what we imagine ourselves to be."

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt on imagination   

"Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people."

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt on illusion
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"If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too. "

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt on love
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"Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe."

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt on mind   

"The human mind will not be confined to any limits."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on mind   

"The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up."

Hazlitt, William on mind