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• The image my work invokes is the image of good - not evil; the image of order - not chaos; the image of life - not death. And that is all the content of my constructions amounts to.

  Naum Gabo

  Order, Evil, Chaos

  Naum Gabo (1957). “Gabo : constructions, sculpture, paintings, drawings, engravings : with introductory essays”

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• No amount of technical knowledge and competence is, of itself, sufficient to make a craftperson into an artist. That requires caring - passionate caring about ultimate things.

  Freeman Patterson

  Passion, Caring, Artist

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• It seems to me that the whole purpose of the workshops is really twofold. One - to help people make better pictures, and two - to unleash their creativity to the fullest amount that they possibly can.

  Freeman Patterson

  Creativity, Two, People

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• Merely knowing your craft will never be enough to make a picture. If you ever amount to anything at all, it will be because you were true to that deep desire or ideal which made you seek artistic expression in pictures.

  Harvey Dunn

  Expression, Knowing, Desire

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• Services like Google and Facebook only exist because of the social acceptance of a mass amount of distributed volunteer labor from tons and tons of people.

  Jaron Lanier

  Acceptance, People, Volunteer

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• If you look at the entrance halls of the skyscrapers of the 1920s and 1930s, they are very welcoming. They are public spaces with enormous amounts of display and marble and so on. They were havens off the street.

  Joseph Rykwert

  Space, Looks, Welcome

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• Sure, you need enormous amounts of technical expertise to be the best in the world. But to accomplish mindfulness, you just need something you already have: the willingness to quiet down, clear the crap and trust yourself.

  Danny Gregory

  Mindfulness, Needs, World

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• Our life-transformation is in exact proportion to the amount of truth we can take without running away.

  Vernon Howard

  Running, Transformation, Proportion

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• The intelligence and ability of a colored person are in pretty direct proportion to the amount of white blood he has, and … most of the positions of leadership, influence, and prominence in the Negro race are held not by real Negroes but by Mulattoes, many of whom have very little Negro blood.

  Madison Grant

  Real, Blood, White

  Madison Grant (2013). “The Conquest of a Continent”, p.298, The Palingenesis Project (Wermod and Wermod Publishing Group)

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• If you have cancer, the most important single consideration is to get the maximum amount of vitamin B17 into your body in the shortest period of time. This is secondary to the medical skill involved in administering it, which is relatively minimal.

  Ernst T. Krebs

  Cancer, Skills, Important

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• The image of God always abides in the soul, whether this image be obsolete and clouded over as to amount to almost nothing; or whether it be obscured or disfigured, as is the case with sinners; or whether it be clear and beautiful as is the case with the just.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Beautiful, Soul, Obsolete

  "Summa Theologica". Book by Thomas Aquinas, I, q. 93, art. 8, ad 3, 1265 - 1274.

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• He who wills believes with a fair amount of certainty that will and action are somehow one; he ascribes the success, the carrying out of the willing, to the will itself, and thereby enjoys an increase of the sensation of power which accompanies all success.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Believe, Action, Willpower

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2013). “The Selected Writings of Friedrich Nietzsche”, p.549, Simon and Schuster

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• Whenever you see a sweeping statement that a tremendous amount can come from a very small number of assumptions, you always find that it is false. There are usually a large number of implied assumptions that are far from obvious if you think about them sufficiently carefully.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Thinking, Small Numbers, Assumption

  "The Feynman Lectures on Physics". Book by Richard P. Feynman, 1964.

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• There's a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.

  Langston Hughes

  Dream, Certain

  Langston Hughes (2011). “Selected Poems of Langston Hughes”, p.270, Vintage

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• That, Senators, is what a favour from gangs amounts to. They refrain from murdering someone; then they boast that they have spared him!

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Favour, Gang, Refrain

  "Philippics". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44 BC.

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• I like my films to have a certain amount of realism - something that's thought provoking and intelligently written. More than the amount on the pay cheque, I look for a level of respectability as an actor.

  Arjun Rampal

  Thought Provoking, Looks, Actors

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• Men who marry for gratification, propagation or the matter of buttons or socks, must expect to cope with and deal in a certain amount of quibble, subterfuge, concealments, and double, deep-dyed prevarication.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Men, Buttons, Matter

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• Women's Studies can amount simply to compensatory history; too often they fail to challenge the intellectual and political structures that must be challenged if women as a group are ever to come into collective, nonexclusionary freedom.

  Adrienne Rich

  Political, Challenges, Intellectual

  Adrienne Rich (1994). “Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985”, p.10, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I discovered that I had, in the past two decades, written a far greater amount in the essay form than I remembered. Certainly I have written enough of it to demonstrate that I harbor no disdain for literary journalism or just plain journalism, under whose sponsorship I have been able to express much that has fascinated me, or alarmed me, or amused me, or otherwise engaged my attention when I was not writing a book.

  William Styron

  Book, Writing, Past

  William Styron (1993). “This Quiet Dust and Other Writings”, Vintage

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• Mere chance ... alone would never account for so habitual and large an amount of difference as that between varieties of the same species.

  Charles Darwin

  Differences, Chance, Origin Of Species

  Charles Darwin (2010). “Evolutionary Writings: including the Autobiographies”, p.286, OUP Oxford

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• When every one is to cultivate himself into man, condemning a man to machine-like labor amounts to the same thing as slavery. If a factory-worker must tire himself to death twelve hours and more, he is cut off from becoming man. Every labor is to have the intent that the man be satisfied.... His labor is nothing taken by itself, has no object in itself, is nothing complete in itself; he labors only into another's hands, and is used (exploited) by this other.

  Max Stirner

  Taken, Cutting, Men

  "The Ego and Its Own (1844)". Book by Max Stirner. Cambridge edition, p. 108, 1995.

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• Anarchism is for liberty, and neither for nor against anything else. Anarchy is the mother of co-operation, yes, just as liberty is the mother of order; but, as a matter of definition, liberty is not order nor is Anarchism co-operation. I define Anarchism as the belief in the greatest amount of liberty compatible with equality of liberty; or, in other words, as the belief in every liberty except the liberty to invade.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Mother, Order, Liberty

  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1893). “Instead of a Book”, Ayer Company Pub

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• In the end, no amount of American forces can solve the political differences that lie at the heart of somebody else's civil war.

  Barack Obama

  War, Lying, Heart

  "President Obama Ends American Combat Mission in Iraq, Looks Ahead to Afghanistan". 'Special Report With Bret Baier' with Steve Hayes, Juan Williams, Charles Krauthammer, www.foxnews.com. August 31, 2010.

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• No amount of rationalisation, reform, or Freudian analysis can quite annul the thrill of the chimney-corner whisper or the lonely wood.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Lonely, Reform, Analysis

  H. P. Lovecraft (2014). “Complete Collection Of H. P. Lovecraft - 150 eBooks With 100+ Audiobooks (Complete Collection Of Lovecraft's Fiction, Juvenilia, Poems, Essays And Collaborations)”, p.1055, Ageless Reads

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• [Unplugged] was also the cheapest to produce and required the least amount of preparation and work. But if you want to know what it actually cost me, go to Ripley and visit the grave of my son.

  Eric Clapton

  Son, Preparation, Cost

  Eric Clapton (2010). “Eric Clapton: The Autobiography”, p.278, Random House

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