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No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but esp

No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds. – John Ruskin

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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth. – John Ruskin

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No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish. – John Ruskin

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Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together. – John Ruskin

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I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me. – Noam Chomsky

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Never lose sight of the fact that old age needs so little but needs that little so much. – Margaret Willour

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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man. – Leon Trotsky (Lev Davidovich Bronstein), Diary in Exile, 1935

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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is lifes parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time. – Simone de Beauvoir

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Few can accept happiness if it means change. We want the life we have now, only happier. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide. – Victor Hugo

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Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows. – Alfred North Whitehead

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I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage. – Bill Nighy

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