Quote by Walt Whitman
I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences. – Walt Whitman

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Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy. – Walt Whitman

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I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep. – Walt Whitman

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Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad. – Salvador Dali

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Life doesnt imitate art, it imitates bad television. – Woody Allen

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Listen to your inner-voice: Surround yourself with loving, nurturing people. Fall in love with your art and find yourself. Music is the great communicator. – Glenn Hughes

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The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress. – Hendrik Willem Van Loon

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The mind is a wonderful thing. It starts working the minute youre born and never stops working until you get up to speak in public. – Patricia Ann Ball

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There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them. – Marie de France

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We all started snowboarding in the beginning as a family just to be closer together, go on trips. It was our soccer, but instead of Dad yelling at me from the sideline he is there riding with me and hitting the jumps even before I am hitting them. – Shaun White

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Liberalism… is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet. – José Ortega y Gasset

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