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Art is the signature of civilizations. - Beverly Sills

Art is the signature of civilizations. – Beverly Sills

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My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for mans anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. – Beverly Sills

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Anger
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Beverly Sills
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The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art. – George Santayana

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Art

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality. – T.S. Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent, 1919

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I dont think theres any artist of any value who doesnt doubt what theyre doing. – Francis Ford Coppola

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Art

What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter – a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue. – Henri Matisse

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Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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Dont ever dare to take your college as a matter of course – because, like democracy and freedom, many people youll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you. – Alice Duer Miller

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A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Leaves are light, and useless, and idle, and wavering, and changeable; they even dance; and yet God in his wisdom has made them a part of oaks. And in so doing he has given us a lesson, not to deny the stout-heartedness within because we see the lightsomeness without. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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