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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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And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud. – Walt Whitman

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The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art. – Thomas Aquinas

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I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world. – Garry Kasparov

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Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects. – Hans Hofmann

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The beginning is the most important part of the work. – Plato

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A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous. – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They dont seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together. – Henry Ford

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I dont think we should proselytize a particular religion. – Sean Hannity

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Love, she said, should be said more slowly, and ran from the house. Words could not catch her as such. Honesty is so slow, that is the trouble. – Author Unknown

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