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• Roger_Bacon" title="Roger Bacon">Roger Bacon expressed a feeling which afterwards moved many minds, when he said that if he had the power he would burn all the works of the Stagirite, since the study of them was not simply loss of time, but multiplication of ignorance. Yet in spite of this outbreak every page is studded with citations from Aristotle, of whom he everywhere speaks in the highest admiration.

  George Henry Lewes

  Ignorance, Loss, Feelings

  "Aristotle: a Chapter from the History of Science". Book by George Henry Lewes, 1864.

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• At every hour of every day, I can tell you on which page of which book each school child in Italy is studying.

  Benito Mussolini

  Education, Children, Book

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• Those who professed themselves unable to believe in the reality of human progress ought to cheer themselves up, as the students under examination had conceivably been cheered up, by a short study of the Middle Ages. The hydrogen bomb, the South African Government, Chioang Kaidick, Senator McCarthy himself, would then seem a light price to pay for no longer being in the Middle Ages.

  Kingsley Amis

  Cheer, Believe, Reality

  Kingsley Amis (1992). “Lucky Jim”, Penguin Classics

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• Mathematical studies may serve for a pleasant entertainment for those hours which young men are apt to throw away upon their vices.

  John Arbuthnot

  Men, Vices, May

  George Atherton Aitken, John Arbuthnot (1892). “The Life and Works of John Arbuthnot, M.D.: Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians”

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• 15, 16, I mean, 17, 18, is when I was really getting into the hip hop phase and really studying the things that I needed to study as far as learning about flows and learning about lyrics.

  Drake

  Mean, Hip Hop, Phases

  "On the Cover: Drake". Interview with Claire Hoffman, www.gq.com. April 13, 2012.

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• I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time.

  Lana Del Rey

  Records, Firsts, Wanted

  "Ice Breaker: Lana Del Rey". Interview with Sean Fennessey, www.gq.com. October 6, 2011.

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• I don't want to name names because I don't want to draw too many direct comparisons but the history of Fascism is populated by people who need to subjugate other people and elevate their status and power to a level which is supreme. Usually, any psychological study of those people will reveal a sort of lost, damaged child, who is somehow heartbroken and doesn't have any self-worth.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Heartbroken, Children, Self Worth

  "Marvel Avengers Assemble - Tom Hiddleston interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I still have a hard time saying who Johnny [ Cash ] is in one sentence. He seemed so contradictory in his actions, and I think that's probably what is most fascinating about him and what made him such an interesting character to study.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Character, Hard Times, Thinking

  Source: movieweb.com

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• The moment I made that decision to get in the studio and actually work and study the culture of hip-hop, then everything just started to open up and blossom for me.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Hip Hop, Decision, Culture

  Interview with Erykah Badu, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 23, 2013.

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• Study the processes and methods of those who are better at it than you... there's someone who knows something you don't, who has honed a skill more than you have. Rival your rival.

  Sara Genn

  Education, Skills, Rivals

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• Do what you love. Go to a good art school and study with the best teachers. Move to New York and read Ask Mark Kostabi.

  Mark Kostabi

  Teacher, Art, New York

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• When one studies the structure of the universe, it becomes clear that the sciences are as aesthetic as the arts, and the arts are as practical as the sciences. Thus, they are different - but the same.

  Edward J. Fraughton

  Art, Different, Structure

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• Be sensitive to your mistakes. Put it on the wall for a couple of weeks. It may be that you can learn more from the study of your own work than from others.

  John French Sloan

  Wall, Couple, Mistake

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• There is a better chance of getting an exciting painting from a laboured study with texture than from a fine drawing without it.

  John French Sloan

  Drawing, Texture, Chance

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• Study the great brush drawings of the Chinese and Japanese... When we try to imitate their conventions for perspective, form and texture we lose the content, because those artists were part of an ancient tradition. Our tradition changes rapidly, our schools of thought come to fruition quickly and decay again. We see differently.

  John French Sloan

  School, Artist, Drawing

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• The study of art is a lifetime matter. The best any artist can do is to accumulate all the knowledge possible of art and its principles, study nature often and then practice continually.

  Edgar Alwin Payne

  Art, Knowledge, Practice

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• Learning the art of painting is not an easy task. It takes a great deal of intelligence, keen analysis, study and practice.

  Edgar Alwin Payne

  Art, Practice, Tasks

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• Not all activities are equal... Those that involve genuine concentration - studying a musical instrument, playing board games, reading, and dancing - are associated with a lower risk for dementia.

  Norman Doidge

  Reading, Health, Games

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• I never wanted to be commissioned to paint portraits. I like to choose my own subject and make a character study from it.

  William Dobell

  Character, Portraits, Portraiture

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• Knowledge and the study of God's Word is voided by the folding of unwilling hands.

  Joshua Roman

  Hands, Folding, Unwilling

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• We have reached one of the great stages in the adventure of thought … We are required to see the universe with new eyes, and it is because it makes such demands and also holds out the promise of realizing them, that the study of science is so supremely worth while.

  J. W. N. Sullivan

  Eye, Adventure, Promise

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• Each person should display her own particular gifts for study. For no one is safe who strives beyond her abilities; and thus it is safer to trust in reason than in men’s opinions.

  Laura Cereta

  Men, Safe, Opinion

  Laura Cereta (2007). “Collected Letters of a Renaissance Feminist”, p.40, University of Chicago Press

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• At every level, from the microcellular to the psychological, exercise not only wards off the ill effects of chronic stress; it can also reverse them. Studies show that if researchers exercise rats that have been chronically stressed, that activity makes the hippocampus grow back to its preshriveled state. The mechanisms by which exercise changes how we think and feel are so much more effective than donuts, medicines, and wine. When you say you feel less stressed out after you go for a swim, or even a fast walk, you are.

  John Ratey

  Stress, Wine, Exercise

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• If a man sets out to study all the laws, he will have no time left to transgress them.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Law, Time Left

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.86, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• I do not know what meaning classical studies could have for our time if they were not untimely that is to say, acting counter to our time and thereby acting on our time and, let us hope, for the benefit of a time to come.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Acting, Benefits, Ifs

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1997). “Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations”, p.98, Cambridge University Press

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