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• Behold then Septimus Dodge returning to Dodge-town victorious. Not crowned with laurel, it is true, but wreathed in lists of things he has seen and sucked dry. Seen and sucked dry, you know: Venus de Milo, the Rhine or the Coliseum: swallowed like so many clams, and left the shells.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Travel, Venus De Milo, Society

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8209, Delphi Classics

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• Every thought which enters the mind, every word we utter, every deed we perform, makes its impression upon the inmost fiber of our being and the result of these impressions is our character. The study of books, of music, or of the fine arts is not essential to a lofty character. It rests with the worker whether a rude piece of marble shall be squared into a horse-block or carved into an Apollo, a Psyche, or a Venus di Milo. It is yours, if you choose, to develop a spiritual form more beautiful than any of these, instinct with immortal life, refulgent with all the glory of character.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Horse

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “ORISON SWETT MARDEN Premium Collection - Wisdom & Empowerment Series (18 Books in One Volume): Steps to Success and Power, How to Get What You Want, An Iron Will, Be Good to Yourself, Every Man A King, Keeping Fit, Prosperity – How to Attract It, Stepping-Stones To Fame And Fortune...”, p.481, e-artnow

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• I wol yow telle, as was me taught also,
  The foure spirites and the bodies sevene,
  By ordre, as ofte I herde my lord hem nevene.
  The firste spirit quiksilver called is,
  The second orpiment, the thridde, ywis,
  Sal armoniak, and the firthe brimstoon.
  The bodies sevene eek, lo! hem heer anoon:
  Sol gold is, and Luna silver we threpe,
  Mars yron, Mercurie quiksilver we clepe,
  Saturnus leed, and Jupiter is tin,
  And Venus coper, by my fader kin!

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Science, Moon, Iron

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• The Venus Project is not about new cities or new architecture. It's about a way of thinking

  Jacque Fresco

  Thinking, Cities, Way

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• The Venus Project is a concept that could happen today but it is not up to me, it depends on what others do to help bring it about.

  Jacque Fresco

  Today, Helping, Projects

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• Alexandros of Antioch took a block of marble and chiseled away from it everything that was not his masterpiece, the Venus de Milo. If you will chisel away one fault from your character every day, you may discover - a) that you're actually a statue of Margaret Thatcher. b) that you're still just a block of marble. c) that there are pigeon droppings on your shoes. d) that you, too, are a hidden masterpiece.

  Robert Breault

  Block, Character, Venus De Milo

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• Let others make war, you happy Austria marry, for kingdoms given to others by Mars, Venus will give to you.

  Matthias Corvinus

  War, Giving, Political

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• In the fabulous ages of ancient times the appellations of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn were given to the planets as being the names of their principal heroes and divinities. In the present more philosophical era, it would hardly be allowable to have recourse to the same method, and call on Juno, Pallas, Apollo, or Minerva for a name to out new heavenly body. . . . I cannot but wish to take this opportunity of expressing my sense of gratitude, by giving the name Georgium Sidus, to a star [Uranus], by which (with to respect to us) first began to shine under His auspicious reign.

  William Herschel

  Gratitude, Stars, Hero

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• I think this is the biggest win in my career. To beat Venus in Wimbledon is just something amazing.

  Elena Vesnina

  Winning, Thinking, Careers

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• Men may be from Mars and women from Venus, but I'm from the Jersey Shore.

  JWoww

  Men, Mars, May

  "The Rules According to JWOWW". Book by Jenni "JWOWW" Farley, www.today.com. February 04, 2011.

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• My gravest secret is that I really did fake the moon landing. On Venus!

  Richard M. Nixon

  Moon, Fake, Secret

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• My film (Black Venus) had been very emotionally draining and difficult because I had identified so much with the lead character, Saartjie Baartman.

  Abdellatif Kechiche

  Character, Black, Film

  Source: collider.com

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• As an artist, I identify with Sandro Botticelli. We know him as the man who painted Primavera and The Birth Of Venus. The goddesses and ancient subjects he chose represented virtues which were meant to inspire people. Then he went through a dark phase when he was listening to the sermons of Savonarola, who preached against the worldly pleasures of the Renaissance. But Botticelli's works live on, inspiring people to this day. Five hundred years after his death, he still has thousands of fans!

  Mary Pope Osborne

  Dark, Men, Artist

  Source: www.yabookshelf.com

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• We are used to discounting the river-gods and dryads of the Greeks as poetical fancies, and even the chief figures in the classical Pantheon-Venus, Minerva, Mars, and the rest-as allegories. But, forgetting that they once carried as much sanctity as our saints and divinities, we refrain from applying the same reasoning to our own objects of worship.

  Julian Huxley

  God, Religious, Rivers

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• I can remember at the age of about six being fascinated by the planets and learning all about Mars and Venus and things.

  Richard Dawkins

  Age, Mars, Six

  Interview with Paul Hoffman, bigthink.com. October 21, 2009.

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• A rural Venus, Selah rises from thegold foliage of the Sixhiboux River, sweepspetals of water from her skin. At once,clouds begin to sob for such beauty.Clothing drops like leaves."No one makes poetry,my Mme.Butterfly, my Carmen, in Whylah,"I whisper. She smiles: "We'll shape it withour souls."Desire illuminates the dark manuscriptof our skin with beetles and butterflies.After the lightning and rain has ceased,after the lightning and rain of lovemakinghas ceased, Selah will dive again into thesunflower-open river.

  George Elliott Clarke

  Love, Rain, Butterfly

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• The Venus Project presents a bold, new direction for humanity that entails nothing less than the total redesign of our culture.

  Jacque Fresco

  Humanity, Culture, Projects

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• I operate under the assumption that people don't notice the good in me. That's just how things always seem to play out. I get blamed, while con-artist kids like Venus, and Camille, and Gemma get believed. But the rescue lady noticed. In the background, just observing, she noticed.

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Kids, Artist, Play

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• Everyone in this room knows that Venus is probably one of the greatest people on the tour. She's really great. She's super professional. Complete opposite of me.

  Serena Williams

  Opposites, People, Rooms

  Serena Williams during U.S. Open Press Conference, www.asapsports.com. September 8, 2015.

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• I have a wish for world peace and the truth. I would like to see a society that will bring happiness to all life forms. Of course, to the Nazis, I appear a rebel, but to the rebels, I appear like a normal person from Venus.

  Nina Hagen

  Wish, Rebel, World

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• The academic teaching on beauty is false. We have been misled, but so completely misled that we can no longer find so much as a shadow of a truth again. The beauties of the Parthenon, the Venuses, the Nymphs, the Narcisusses, are so may lies. Art is not the application of a canon of beauty, but what the instinct and the brain can conceive independently of that canon.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Lying, Teaching

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• What helped me get the part was that I turned it down. When I read the script, Venus was just a black guy who came in wearing a big coat and a hat and making jive talk. I'd been up for so many of those! I'd had enough of caricatures, what white writers conceive blacks to be. I told the producer I wasn't interested in doing anything like that for three or four years. He said that it was just a pilot, that Venus would be given a human dimension and would be quiet off-the-air. I wanted that input. I thought that side was as important as the comic side. For 'WKRP,' too much of either would be bad.

  Tim Reid

  Years, White, Air

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• In Los Angeles, I feel like the ugly duckling, like I'm from Venus or something.

  Eva Green

  Ugly Duckling, Ducklings, Los Angeles

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• Venus de Milo's mother, who once said to Venus, You never call me. Can't you pick up a phone? Never got a dinner!

  Red Buttons

  Mother, Venus De Milo, Phones

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• Self help books are pointless. Here's something for you... Men are from Mars, women are from Venus, and self help books are from Uranus.

  Craig Ferguson

  Book, Men, Self

  "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson", www.imdb.com. 2005-2015.

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