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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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I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I dont believe I deserved my friends. – Walt Whitman

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There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius. – Walt Whitman

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So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs. – Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Perhaps its good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if hes happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life? – Aldous Huxley

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Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art – or almost the only stuff. – David Herbert Lawrence

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Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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It is not to be expected that human nature will change in a day. – Frank B. Kellogg

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Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence. – Pearl Bailey

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When I look into the future, its so bright it burns my eyes. – Oprah Winfrey

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To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force, is seldom the part of intelligence it is frequently the part of ignorance. – Paul Harris

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