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Quote by William Blake
The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrad

The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose. – William Blake

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Great things are done when men and mountains meet. This is not done by jostling in the street. – William Blake

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Nature
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The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever and ever. – William Blake

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Generations
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious. – Jean Cocteau

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Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. – Edgar Degas

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The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these pointless globes are as near as the human form can ever come to abstract art. – Kenneth Tynan

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Art

The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me its something that theatre can do, but its rare; its very rare. – John Berger

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All the modern verse plays, theyre terrible theyre mostly about the poetry. Its more important that the play is first. – Denis Johnson

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This is how we are with wine and beautiful food… we want and we get drunk with wanting, then the headache and bitterness afterward. – Rumi

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Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect. – Marcus Aurelius

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We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning. – Albert Barnes

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