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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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To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song. – Henri Frederic Amiel

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Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is. – Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark, 1915

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Art seduces, but does not exploit. – Mason Cooley

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Art is anything you can get away with. – Marshall McLuhan

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