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• Though freedom and wealth are both good things which most of us desire and though we often need both to obtain what we wish, they still remain different. Whether or not I am my own master and can follow my own choice and whether the possibilities from which I must choose are many or few are two entirely different questions. The courtier living in the lap of luxury but at the beck and call of his prince may be much less free than a poor peasant or artisan, less able to live his own life and to choose his own opportunities for usefulness.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Opportunity, Two, Luxury

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• The painter who is content with the praise of the world for what does not satisfy himself, is not an artist, but an artisan; for though his reward be only praise, his pay is that of a mechanic.

  Washington Allston

  Artist, Doe, World

  Washington Allston, Richard Henry Dana (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.172, Scholarly Pub Office Univ of

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• If the corn laws were altered, the British artisan might again be able to subsist by twelve hours' labour, a most desirable event.

  Joseph Hume

  Law, Twelve, Events

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• Tapestries are made by many artisans working together. The contributions of separate workers cannot be discerned in the completed work, and the loose and false threads have been covered over. So it is in our picture of particle physics.

  Sheldon Lee Glashow

  Science, Working Together, Research

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• These considerations and many others that might be mentioned prove, and experience confirms it, that artisans and manufacturers will commonly be disposed to bestow their votes on merchants.

  James Madison

  People, Might, Vote

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1852). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in 1788”, p.153

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• Women are the simple, and poets the superior, artisans of language... the intervention of grammarians is almost always bad.

  Remy de Gourmont

  Simple, Language, Poet

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• The artisan or scientist or the follower of whatever discipline who has the habit of comparing himself not with other followers but with the discipline itself will have a lower opinion of himself, the more excellent he is.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Discipline, Followers, Opinion

  Giacomo Leopardi (1987). “Leopardi: Poems and Prose”, Praeger Pub Text

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• Violence is fomented by the imposition of singular and belligerent identities on gullible people, championed by proficient artisans of terror.

  Amartya Sen

  People, Identity, Violence

  Amartya Sen (2007). “Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny”, p.2, Penguin Books India

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• Over the course of several articles, I will give you the tools to become a sentence connoisseur as well as a sentence artisan. Each of my lessons will give you the insight to appreciate fine sentences and the vocabulary to talk about them.

  Constance Hale

  Vocabulary, Appreciate, Giving

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• ...when you buy just two or three tons from a grower, they see the artisan work you do with their grapes, and then they want to give you their good fruit. By keeping small I can put my heart into it.

  John Bennett Ramsey

  Heart, Wine, Two

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• Anyone who has undergone home repair lately knows that your everyday artisan uses language so loosely and makes false promises so glibly as to make your politicians, even the presidential candidate, seem like a model of accuracy and rectitude. 'Be there Wednesday at nine,' the workman will tell you. It is a lie. He is humoring you. He says it to silence you, the way you tell a child you will take it to Disneyland if it will stop crying.

  Mary McGrory

  Children, Lying, Home

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• I fully agree with you about the significance and educational value of as well as history and philosophy of science. So many people today - and even professional - seem to me like someone who has seen thousands of trees but has never seen a forest. A knowledge of the historic and philosophical background gives that kind of independence from prejudices of his generation from which most scientists are suffering. This independence created by philosophical insight is - in my opinion - the mark of distinction between a mere artisan or specialist and a real seeker after truth.

  Albert Einstein

  Philosophy, Real, Educational

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• Many of the enchanted things in the book are lamps, carpets, sofas, gems, brass rings. It is a rather different landscape than the fairy tale landscape of the West. Though we have interiors and palaces, we don't have bustling cities, and there isn't the emphasis on the artisan making things. The ambiance from which they were written was an entirely different one. The Arabian Nights comes out of a huge world of markets and trade. Cairo, Basra, Damascus: trades and skills.

  Marina Warner

  Book, Night, Skills

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Fifty-seven percent of Americans are do-it-yourselfers, craftspeople, and artisans and makers.

  Martha Stewart

  Fifty, Seven, Makers

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Each one of us is called to be an artisan of peace, by uniting and not dividing, by extinguishing hatred and not holding on to it, by opening paths to dialogue and not by constructing new walls!

  Pope Francis

  Wall, Hatred, Uniting

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• Real artists find answers. The knowledge of the artisan is within the confines of his skills. For example, I know a lot about lenses, about the editing room. I know what the different buttons on the camera are for. I know more or less how to use a microphone. I know all that, but that's not real knowledge. Real knowledge is knowing how to live, why we live, things like that.

  Krzysztof Kieslowski

  Real, Artist, Skills

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• We are a country of artisans and a country of manufacturing. I think Japanese textile technology is the best in the world.

  Tadashi Yanai

  Country, Technology, Thinking

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• The difference between art and craft lies not in the tools you hold in your hands, but in the mental set that guides them. For the artisan, craft is an end in itself. For you, the artist, craft is the vehicle for expressing your vision. Craft is the visible edge of art.

  David Bayles

  Inspirational, Motivational, Art

  David Bayles, Ted Orland (2001). “Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking”, p.99, Image Continuum Press

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• We imagine much more appropriately an artisan on his toilet seat or on his wife than a great president, venerable by his demeanorand his ability. It seems to us that they do not stoop from their lofty thrones even to live.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Imagination, Wife, President

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.615, Stanford University Press

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• [Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it's a place where you don't have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It's a place where you can still be an artisan. People are willing to pay you if you're any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.

  Alan Kay

  People, Pay, Fabulous

  "Spacewar: Fanatic Life and Symbolic Death Among the Computer Bums". Rolling Stone, wheels.org. December 07, 1972.

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• In Great Britain the price of food is at a higher level than in any other country, and consequently, the British artisan labours at a disadvantage in proportion to the higher rate of his food.

  Joseph Hume

  Country, Levels, Proportion

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• But the time will come when New England will be as thickly peopled as old England. Wages will be as low, and will fluctuate as much with you as with us. You will have your Manchesters and Birminghams; and, in those Manchesters and Birminghams, hundreds of thousands of artisans will assuredly be sometimes out of work. Then your institutions will be fairly brought to the test.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Wages, Tests, England

  "The Letters of Thomas Babington Macaulay" by Thomas Pinney, vol. 6, p. 95", 1981.

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• The kind of people I myself represent in parliament; salary earners, shopkeepers, skilled artisans, professional men and women, farmers and so on, these are, in a political and economic sense, the middle class. They are for the most part unorganised and unselfconscious.

  Robert Menzies

  Business, Men, Class

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• Did the Warwickshire militia, who were chiefly artisans, teach the Irish to drink beer, or did they learn from the Irish how to drink whiskey?

  Maria Edgeworth

  Beer, Whiskey, Drink

  1800 Castle Rackrent,'History of Sir Conolly Rackrent'.

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• When I met David Green at film school he always used to offer free haircuts - he was kind of an artisan. In a lot of our films, he's constantly trying to give me weird looks.

  Danny McBride

  School, Giving, Trying

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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