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Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession do not run after distinctions and rewards but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty. – Sydney Smith

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The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well-kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor keep the fasts. – Sydney Smith

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Fasting
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Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. – Sydney Smith

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Happiness
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Who knows better than artists how much ugliness there is on the way to beauty, how many ghastly, mortifying missteps, how many days of granitic blockheadedness and dismaying ineptitude there is on the way to accomplishment, how partial all accomplishment is, how incomplete? – Tony Kushner

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And for me, the real world involves everything: risk, danger, beauty, energy, all we meet with in the real world. – Christo

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Boxing is my real passion. I can go to ballet, theatre, movies, or other sporting events… and nothing is like the fights to me. Im excited by the visual beauty of it. A boxer can look so spectacular by doing a good job. – LeRoy Neiman

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Beauty

For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression. – Vladimir Kramnik

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