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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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When I got out of acting school, I was lucky to have gotten any job at all. A lot of people hiring African American actresses – it was right after Roots, and for society, not me, it was great. Nice richly dark-skinned people was the fashion, and I was not. – Anna Deavere Smith

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The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development its love – that one principle. – Tom Shadyac

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I think the first duty of society is justice. – Alexander Hamilton

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Since my retirement, Ive spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just cant afford an uneducated underclass of citizens. – Charles Kuralt

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Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them. – Gabriel Marcel

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Blindness hatred is blind, as well as love. – Thomas Fuller

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Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too. – William Blake

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Looking ahead, I believe that the underlying importance of higher education, of science, of technology, of research and scholarship to our quality of life, to the strength of our economy, to our security in many dimensions will continue to be the most important message. – Charles Vest

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