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He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.


William Wirt


#chief #creates #great #hundred #imagines

I wrote a number of pieces in the year 1966 that were so bad that, although I'm a great collector of my own pieces, I have never collected them.


Tom Wolfe


#bad #collected #collector #great #i

No one has been a greater advocate for the power of love in this world than I; both in my life and in my music.


Stevie Wonder


#been #both #greater #i #life

First of all, I can't really claim to be a great chef.


Martin Yan


#claim #first #first of all #great #i

Great artists are a little too gifted to be bound by boxes and labels, and in saying that, the label 'artist' is to be used lightly.


Criss Jami


#artists #bondage #boundaries #boxes #brilliance

When most of the greatest individuals in history were misunderstood and you've spent so much of your own adult life misunderstood, you can't help but believe that the majority of people know very little worth knowing.


Criss Jami


#funny #funny-but-true #genius #geniuses #gift

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.


William Butler Yeats


#behind #black #broken #feet #god

The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.


A. B. Yehoshua


#boundaries #cross #crossing #experts #great

The heart of a man is a small thing but it desires great matters. It is not big enough for a dog’s dinner but the whole world is not big enough for it. Man spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to adorn himself, he kills to attack, he kills to defend himself, he kills to instruct himself, he kills to amuse himself, he kills for the sake of killing. From the lamb he tears its guts and makes his harp resound; from the wolf his most deadly tooth to polish his pretty works of art; from the elephant his tusks to make a toy for his child.(...)And who will exterminate him who exterminates all others?


Paul Hoffman


#art #bosco #cale #child #clothes

..if I dont do something on the grand scale, it is that my genius is altogether imitative, and that I have nor recently encountered any very striking models of grandeur.


Henry James


#greatness #imitation #art