Quote by Kenneth Clark
We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effe

We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs. – Kenneth Clark

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People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilization. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilization; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater. – Kenneth Clark

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Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process. – Kenneth Clark

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You call to a dog and a dog will break its neck to get to you. Dogs just want to please. Call to a cat and its attitude is, Whats in it for me? – Lewis Grizzard

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A positive attitude is not going to save you. What its going to do is, everyday, between now and the day you die, whether thats a short time from now or a long time from now, that every day, youre going to actually live. – Elizabeth Edwards

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Wag more. Bark less. – Author Unknown

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If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts. – Karl Jaspers

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