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History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destro

History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed art has remembered the people, because they created. – William Morris

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The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make. – William Morris

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Future
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William Morris
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I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few. – William Morris

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Art
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I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name. – William Morris

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Protest
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The people who make art their business are mostly imposters. – Pablo Picasso

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Art

The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience. – Camille Paglia

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Art

I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences. – Jim Morrison

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Art

We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art. – Henry James

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Art

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Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future. – Brian Tracy

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[T]he cherub, alas, proved to be pasted on tough gingerbread which was too hard for many to bite into. – Vladimir Nabokov, The Gift, 1963, translated from Russian by Michael Scammell

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Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew mans nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere. – Robert Bork

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