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• Camp taste turns its back on the good-bad axis of ordinary aesthetic judgment. Camp doesn't reverse things. It doesn't argue that the good is bad, or the bad is good. What it does is to offer for art, and life, a different - a supplementary - set of standards.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Axes, Ordinary

  Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

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• I believe the bicentenary offers us a chance not just to say how profoundly shameful the slave trade was - how we condemn its existence utterly and praise those who fought for its abolition - but also to express our deep sorrow that it could ever have happened and rejoice at the better times we live in today.

  Tony Blair

  Believe, Sorrow, Today

  "Blair: Britain's 'sorrow' for shame of slave trade" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 25, 2006.

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• There is a time to provide advice and offer an opinion, and there is a time not to. Don't be too quick to offer unsolicited advice. It certainly will not endear you to people.

  Harvey Mackay

  People, Advice, Opinion

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• If there is some profound method that offers a quick way, we would rather follow that than undertake arduous journeys and difficult practices. But some manual work and physical effort is necessary.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Journey, Practice, Profound

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume One: Born in Tibet; Meditation in Action; Mudra; Selected Writings”, p.298, Shambhala Publications

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• Culture and, within culture, music are the best and most fascinating thing that the German capital has to offer internationally. It is putting that at risk.

  Simon Rattle

  Risk, Culture, Fascinating

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• Service is God. Why has God endowed man with a body, a mind and an intellect ? Feel with the mind, plan with the intelligence and use the body to serve those who are in need of service. Offer that act of service to God; worship home with that Flower.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Flower, Home, Men

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• PERFORM all acts with as much love as you would offer God. In Truth, you eat for the satisfaction of the I in you and dress up to please the self-same I . The husband loves his wife for the sake of the I . And who is this I that is persistently inherent in everyone? It is God Himself.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Husband, Self, Wife

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• For a painter as abstract as myself, the collages offer a way of incorporating bits of the everyday world into pictures.

  Robert Motherwell

  Everyday, World, Way

  Siri Engberg, Joan Banach, Robert Motherwell, Walker Art Center (2003). “Robert Motherwell: the Complete Prints 1940-1991: Catalogue Raisonne”, p.21, Hudson Hills

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• The moving toward one's inner self is a long pilgrimage for a painter. It offers many temporary successes and high points, but impels him on toward the more adequate image.

  Ben Shahn

  Moving, Journey, Self

  Ben Shahn (1957). “The Shape of Content”, p.36, Harvard University Press

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• Men, I'm getting out of Rome. Anyone who wants to carry on the war against the outsiders, come with me. I can offer you neither honours nor wages; I offer you hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Anyone who loves his country, follow me

  Giuseppe Garibaldi

  Country, War, Men

  Guiseppe Guerzoni 'Garibaldi' (1882) vol. 1, p. 331. (The speech was not recorded verbatim.)

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• Many of the Kiwis appearing in powerful business circles around the world come from accounting backgrounds. Yet often people have preset ideas of how an accountant walks, talks, smells - although not in the business community. For me it is a career that offers a lot of variety and challenges and I love it.

  Philip Roth

  Powerful, Circles, Careers

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• Aimee Parkison offers a distinct new voice to contemporary fiction. Her seductive stories explore childhood as a realm of sorrows, and reveal the afflictions of adults who emerge from this private geography.

  Carol Anshaw

  Contemporary Fiction, Voice, Seductive

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• It varies by community. At (one local community) we've never offered them. But at most communities, we offer 2 or 3 percent off base price.

  Roger Lewis

  Communication, Community, Percent

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• Our country has caused tremendous damage and pain to the peoples of many countries, especially Asian countries, through colonial rule and invasion. Humbly acknowledging such facts of history, I once again reflect most deeply and offer apologies from my heart as well as express my condolences to all the victims of the last major war both in and out of the country,.

  Junichiro Koizumi

  Country, Pain, War

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• Begin now, as you read these words, as you sit in your chair, to offer your whole selves, utterly and in joyful abandon, in quiet, glad surrender to Him who is within. In secret ejaculations of praise, turn in humble wonder to the Light, faint though it may be.

  Thomas Raymond Kelly

  Humble, Light, Self

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• I am a song bird, I am a meek song bird, I offer my prayer to the Lord.

  Guru Nanak

  Song, Prayer, Bird

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• No calamity happens to those who eagerly follow auspicious customs and the rule of good conduct, to those who are always careful of purity, and to those who mutter ,sacred texts and offer burnt oblations.

  Guru Nanak

  Sacred, Purity, Calamity

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• Whenever I donate a hunting trip for the Children's Leukemia Foundation, Ronald McDonald Cancer House, all these children's charities, I offer the anti-hunters an opportunity: if you donate more to the children's charity than the hunters donate we won't go hunting.

  Ted Nugent

  Children, Cancer, Opportunity

  "America Nuge". Interview with Larry Kudlow, Jim Cramer, www.nationalreview.com. May 17, 2002.

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• Russia can offer state-of-the-art technology, .. For example, we can help other countries launch space devices such as satellites.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Art, Helping Others

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• And preserving our open spaces or having them there for recreational purposes is one of the things that contributes to the high level of quality of life that we offer in Pennsylvania, and that also translates into economic benefits.

  Ed Rendell

  Space, Quality, Pennsylvania

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• I think the Jets came in with a legitimate offer. At that point, I hadn't had one from the Eagles. I had to think, 'I've really got to work up here [in New York]? Do you really want to deal with that on a weekly basis?

  Jon Runyan

  New York, Thinking, Eagles

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• The driving force behind today's terrorist threat is Islamist fundamentalism. The struggle we are engaged in is, at root, ideological. During the last century a strain of Islamist thinking has developed which, like other totalitarianisms, such as Nazism and Communism, offers its followers a form of redemption through violence.

  David Cameron

  Struggle, Thinking, Roots

  David Cameron's speech to the Foreign Policy Centre thinktank, www.theguardian.com. August 24, 2005.

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• The words are very distinctly formed; but by the bodily ear they are not heard. They are, however, much more clearly understood than they would be if they were heard by the ear. It is impossible not to understand them, whatever resistance we may offer... There is no escape, for in spite of ourselves we must listen...

  Teresa of Avila

  Listening, Would Be, Ears

  "The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus, of The Order of Our Lady of Carmel" by Teresa of Avila, translated by David Lewis, (Ch. XXV. "Divine Locutions. Discussions on That Subject"), 1904.

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• My time at Wofford was very dear to me. I chose to go there because the academics were so strong. I could have gone somewhere a little more local, but I wanted the academic challenges Wofford had to offer. It worked out pretty well for me obviously.

  Brenda Jackson

  Strong, Challenges, Gone

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• The Coventry School Committee has been ahead of the curve in addressing the nutrition needs of our students. This committee is an extension of a process begun more than a year ago to ensure the foods we offer had high nutritional value.

  Michael Reeves

  School, Curves, Years

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