Quote by Camille Paglia
I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning that exceptio

I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity. – Camille Paglia

Other quotes by Camille Paglia

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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Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts. – Camille Paglia

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Art
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All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once! – Camille Paglia

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History
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My everyday job is about superficial beauty, but when Im not working I prefer to work on my inner beauty – I read a lot, I try to learn. – Bar Refaeli

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Beauty

A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever. – Helen Rowland

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Beauty

Theres a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me. – John Erskine

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Beauty

Beauty comes from the inside. – Kathy Ireland

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We cannot be happy if we expect to live all the time at the highest peak of intensity. Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony. – Thomas Merton, 1955

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A friend who dies, its something of you who dies. – Gustave Flaubert

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The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots. – Rebecca West

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Weve lost touch and allowed technology to take precedence over organic nature. But lets not forget that those microchips in our computers came from elements of the earth. – Emilio Estevez

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