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The curiosity of the human mind is essential if you want citizens who think rather than accept the first nonsense they come to.
Francois Englert
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Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.
Huston Smith
I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.
Anthony Kiedis
Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?
Emma Goldman
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There's no other product that changes function like the computer.


Jonathan Ive
The true color of life is the color of the body, the color of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest color of the unpublished blood.
Alice Meynell
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When we talk about self-confrontations, we are speaking about moral issues rather than social issues.
Asghar Farhadi
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Sometimes it's learning how the play wants to function rather than imposing something on it. For me, that's the thrill in directing.
David Rabe
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There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.
John Wooden
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Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.


Ayn Rand
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Revolutions just spread blood. Evolution - this is something that changes in the long term.


Marjane Satrapi
If an artist is driven primarily by social responsibility, I think the art probably suffers because, again, just as leadership has a rather defined end point or purpose, social responsibility would seem to have a very clear moral context.
Billy Collins
Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.
Lord Acton
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It makes me upset, if not angry, when people assume that there can be no morality without a religious framework. If there's a moral framework without all that religious stuff, it's more valuable.
Jane Asher
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What I do not want to write is didactic political tracts.


Joan D. Vinge
Most of my work has no conventional narrative, so it's not essential to have a beginning and an end - your attention can flow in and out of the experience rather than having a set entry point.
Marco Brambilla
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Keep your blood clean, your body lean, and your mind sharp.


Henry Rollins
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Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art .
Robert Smithson
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All the religious wars that have caused blood to be shed for centuries arise from passionate feelings and facile counter-positions, such as Us and Them, good and bad, white and black.
Umberto Eco
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The hidden child wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer.
Christian Morgenstern
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