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The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money. -

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money. – Samuel Butler

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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine. – Samuel Butler

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Letters (writing)
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Samuel Butler
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Always eat grapes downward — that is eat the best grapes first; in this way there will be none better left on the bunch, and each grape will seem good down to the last. If you eat the other way, you will not have a good grape in the lot. – Samuel Butler

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Food
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Samuel Butler
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It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found. – Wilson Mizner

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Art

Art is nothing but the expression of our dream the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them. – Franz Marc

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Art

Art disturbs, science reassures. – Georges Braque, Le Jour et la nuit

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Art

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when its all over. – Octavia Butler

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Art

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Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are necessities. – Alfred North Whitehead

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The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe. – Albert Einstein

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But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right. – Ray Stannard Baker

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I want to stay healthy, keep fit, eat well, keep a low profile and be a good dad. – Frank Bruno

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