Quote by Camille Paglia
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Beauty is our weapon against nature by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature. – Camille Paglia

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Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up. – Camille Paglia

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mom
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Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obamas Waterloo. – Camille Paglia

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Failure
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I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands societys care. – Camille Paglia

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Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable. – Richard Steele

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I was not a good-lookin girl. I was extremely skinny. I wasnt pretty. I wasnt cool. – Celine Dion

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Blanche talks about aging, and why should she be considered poor, because physical beauty is transitory and fading and she has such richness of the soul. I think that speech is so beautiful, and so telling and so true. – Delta Burke

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Shortly thereafter, some friends encouraged me to try out for the Miss South Carolina World beauty pageant. To my surprise, I won – and was sent to New York City to compete nationally. – Donna Rice

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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan The proper study of mankind is man. – Alexander Pope

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If youre an original thinker, you are going get told no a lot, and you have to be able to hear no many times from the bankers and trust that at some point, someone is going to recognize that you are an artist and not a can of soda. – Nick Offerman

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Socialism appeals to better classes and has far more strength. Attack the state and you excite feelings of loyalty even among the disaffected classes but attack the industrial system and appeal to the state, and you may have loyalty in your favor. – John Bates Clark

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Every corporation has a complaint process that begins with someone telling you that you are the first person to ever complain about this. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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