#dim

The battle was first waged over the right of the Negro to be classed as a human being with a soul; later, as to whether he had sufficient intellect to master even the rudiments of learning; and today it is being fought out over his social recognition. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

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Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Painting does what we cannot do - it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane. ↗

— Chuck Jones

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I get weary of reading about rebirths because we're all growing all the time and it diminishes the life you've lived if you say 'I'm a new person.' ↗

— Rickie Lee Jones

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Things danced on the screen do not look the way they do on the stage. On the stage, dancing is three-dimensional, but a motion picture is two-dimensional. ↗

— Gene Kelly

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When we first broke into that forbidden box in the other dimension, we knew we had discovered something as surprising and powerful as the New World when Columbus came stumbling onto it. ↗

— Ken Kesey

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The line between what I really am, and what I am on reel, is slowly diminishing. ↗

— Shahrukh Khan

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It is very hard to be a female leader. While it is assumed that any man, no matter how tough, has a soft side... and female leader is assumed to be one-dimensional. ↗

— Billie Jean King

#assumed #female #hard #how #leader

In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is a symbol, and the more profoundly the imaginary lines of projection meet higher dimensions, the better. ↗

— Paul Klee

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