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He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.


Walter Benjamin


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To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.


Arnold Bennett


#artists #brain #dead #experience #fact

Racism is a refuge for the ignorant. It seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom, and deserves to be met head-on and stamped out.


Pierre Berton


#destroy #divide #enemy #freedom #head-on

The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.


Gabriel Garcia Marquez


#free #interpretation #less #make #more

Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.


Otto von Bismarck


#even #observes #polite #politeness #rules

1 month ago the American people stopped to remember the third anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war. We thought first and foremost of the selflessness, patriotism and heroism by our troops, our National Guard and Reserves.


Rosa DeLauro


#american #american people #anniversary #beginning #first

Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.


John Dewey


#beliefs #compelled #compromises #even #hangs

A signal is comprehended if it serves to make us notice the object or situation it bespeaks. A symbol is understood when we conceive the idea it presents.


Susanne Langer


#comprehended #conceive #idea #make #notice

A Good School deserves to be call'd, the very Salt of the Town, that hath it.


Cotton Mather


#deserves #good #hath #salt #school

Every man should be considered as having a right to the character which he deserves; that is, to be spoken of according to his actions.


James Mill


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