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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After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on – have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear – what remains? Nature remains. – Walt Whitman

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Business
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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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Music happens to be an art form that transcends language. – Herbie Hancock

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To be honest, I sort of feel like movie actor isnt of this time. I love it. But its a 20th-century art form. – Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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I dont think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But its certainly worth a try. – Steven Spielberg

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A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds. – Henry Moore

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If you understand compound interest, you basically understand the universe. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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I hope that none of the countries in the Middle East are planning anything but the peaceful utilization of nuclear energy. – King Abdullah II

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But let me tell you what happens when regulations go too far, when they seem to exist only for the purpose of justifying the existence of a regulator. It kills the people trying to start a business. – Marco Rubio

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All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished. – Marshall Rosenberg

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