“ Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all. ”
- Thomas Fuller- Copy
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“ History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird. ”
- Joseph Conrad- Copy
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“ Talking is like playing on the harp; there is as much in laying the hands on the strings to stop their vibration as in twanging them to bring out their music. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes- Copy
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“ He who imitates what is evil always goes beyond the example that is set; on the contrary, he who imitates what is good always falls short. ”
- Francesco Guicciardini- Copy
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“ Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do. ”
- Shaquille O’Neal- Copy
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“ On the green banks of Shannon, when Sheelah was nigh, No blithe Irish lad was so happy as I; No harp like my own could so cheerily play, And wherever I went was my poor dog Tray. ”
- Thomas Campbell- Copy
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“ I held it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping stones Or their dead selves to higher things. ”
- Lord Alfred Tennyson- Copy
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“ Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune. ”
- Igor Stravinsky- Copy
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“ The essence of a quote is the compression of a mass of thought and observation into a single saying. ”
- John Morely- Copy
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“ There are two kinds of marriages — where the husband quotes the wife and where the wife quotes the husband. ”
- Clifford Odets- Copy
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“ Some men see things as they are and ask, 'why?' I dream things that never were and ask, 'why not?'"NB: This quote is a paraphrase from a similar quote by G. B. Shaw. ”
- Robert Francis Kennedy- Copy
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“ And touch'd their golden harps, and hymning praised God and his works. ”
- John Milton- Copy
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“ The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to quote another's wit. ”
- Christian Nestell Bovee- Copy
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“ There are two kinds of marriages - where the husband quotes the wife and where the wife quotes the husband. ”
- Clifford Odets- Copy
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“ MacMillan has this particular quote simply as God doesn't play dice. and notes that it is often quoted as doesn't play dice with the universe. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ Experience isn't interesting till it begins to repeat itself — in fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience. ”
- Elizabeth Bowen- Copy
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“ Importunity is a condition of prayer. We are to press the matter, not with vain repetitions, but with urgent repetitions. We repeat, not to count the times, but to gain the prayer. We cannot quit praying because heart and soul are in it. We pray "with all perseverance… ”
- E.M. Bounds- Copy
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“ It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it — just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same seashore. ”
- Albert Camus- Copy
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“ However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State. ”
- Joseph Goebbels- Copy
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