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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Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all. – Walt Whitman

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I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God – I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least. – 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 great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation. – Louise Brooks

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Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity. – Hippocrates

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For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before. – Vidal Sassoon

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Wherever art appears, life disappears. – Robert Motherwell

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Dad was a bus driver, and when he finished work he would repair cars. – Bruno Tonioli

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Well try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail. – Dave Barry

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Beware the hobby that eats. – Benjamin Franklin

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At bottom is the best soil to sow and grow something new again. In that sense, hitting bottom, while extremely painful, is also the sowing ground. – Anon.