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We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art. – Henry James

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One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left. – Henry James

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Civilization
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Henry James
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Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. – Henry James

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Summer
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I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them. – Nelson Mandela

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Art

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man. – Edward Steichen

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Art

Art is a shadow of what a person is thinking… a small glimpse of what they hold inside. Little secrets, regrets, joys… every line has its own meaning. – Sarah, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999

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Art

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. – John Kenneth Galbraith

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Art

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There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. – George Bernard Shaw

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When we were growing up and saw a Ray Harryhausen movie, we were interested in how it was done. But thank God we got to go through the magic of seeing it before we knew how it was done. You were able to get this beautiful, pure, visceral response to something without knowing too much about it. – Tim Burton

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Film / Filmmaking / Movies

There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants — more than anything else — to become rich. As long as they dont have the money, itll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, theyll understand how important other things are — and have always been. – Anita Loos

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When the flatterer pipes, then the devil dances. – Thomas Fuller

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Flattery