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It is not that artistic power has left the world but that a more r

It is not that artistic power has left the world but that a more rapid life has developed itself in it, leaving no time for deliberate dainty decoration or labours of love. – Mrs. Orrinsmith, 1877

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I was very restless. I really wanted to be a part of a kind of a progressive society. I was fed up with these Communist doctrines and you were hassled all the time with members of the Party committee who were KGB, what you have to do, where in the West you can go or not to go. – Mikhail Baryshnikov

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I believe discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form. – Andrew Cuomo

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We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society. – Joe Biden

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In the broad earth of ours,
Amid the measureless grossness and the slag,
Enclosed and safe within its central heart,
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No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress. – William Law

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