Quote by Paul Valery
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Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business. – Paul Valery

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In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well. – Paul Valery

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Poetry
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Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature. – Paul Valery

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Science
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Art
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To me, photography is an art of observation. Its about finding something interesting in an ordinary place… Ive found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them. – Elliott Erwitt

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Art

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience. – Rebecca West

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Art

At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design. – Jim Henson

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Art

Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate. – Harvey Fierstein

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Art

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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence. – Frederick Douglass

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In any influence, will, a self, the ego, the I AM is the greater force to be dealt with, but as numbers do influence, a knowledge of same certainly gives an individual a foresight into relationships. – Edgar Cayce

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Life must be lived as play. – Plato

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A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day. – Proverb

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