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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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War: a massacre of people who dont know each other for the profit of people who know each other but dont massacre each other. – Paul Valery

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Picasso would give up cubism just to capture your curves. – Konfal Blyther

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You cant but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because its a narrative art form. – Tom Stoppard

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There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind of contention that we harbor within. – Morihei Ueshiba

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Painting is by nature a luminous language. – Robert Delaunay

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