“ I think all art is about control - the encounter between control and the uncontrollable. ”
- Richard Avedon- Copy
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“ I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly. ”
- Gustave Flaubert- Copy
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“ Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free. ”
- Horace- Copy
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“ Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older. ”
- Jean Jacques Rousseau- Copy
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“ There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind. ”
- Buddha- Copy
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“ It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent. Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model. ”
- Vincent van Gogh- Copy
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“ All Presidents start out to run a crusade but after a couple of years they find they are running something less heroic and much more intractable: namely the presidency. The people are well cured by then of election fever, during which they think they are choosing Moses… ”
- Alistair Cooke- Copy
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“ The horrors which we have seen, and the still greater horrors we shall presently see, are not signs that rebels, insubordinate, untamable people are increasing in number throughout the world, but rather that there is a constant increase in the number of obedient, docile people. ”
- George Bernanos- Copy
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“ There is no mystery, at least not the kind you want. In real life there are no fogbound moors or clues on matchbooks or fifth columnists waiting to be unmasked. it would be nice if here were, because then there would be solutions to things in life, but it doesn't always work that way… ”
- Rogers Turrentine- Copy
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“ The difference between an ant walking down the sidewalk and the International Space Station orbiting the Earth is about four orders of magnitude. I never really timed how fast an ant goes. Then I was thinking about a lot of the intractable contemporary conflicts that plague the world today. ”
- Guy Burgess- Copy
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