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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which th

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left. – Alexander Pope

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Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored; dies before thy uncreating word: thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall; and universal darkness buries all. – Alexander Pope

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Chaos
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Alexander Pope
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One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity. – Alexander Pope

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Observation
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Alexander Pope
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Art is the struggle to understand. – Terri Guillemets

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The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these pointless globes are as near as the human form can ever come to abstract art. – Kenneth Tynan

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Art

Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. – Socrates

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Art

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science. – Edward Sapir

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In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first. – Jimi Hendrix

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Concentrating on poses clears the mind, while focusing on the breath helps the body shift out of fight-or-flight mode. – Melanie Haiken, “Worry Thwarts,” Yoga Journal, March 2006

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I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world thats becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism. – Bell Hooks

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