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The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.
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In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end.
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When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.


Plato
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As I said, I began losing confidence in my instincts, which is tough and very bad for an instinctive person.
Kim Novak
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He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.


Walt Whitman
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Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.


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This may sound trite, but bad things happen to good people, and when you're facing terrorism, natural disaster, you can have every wonderful plan in place, but I am a realist.
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I don't believe in honors - it bothers me. Honors bother: honors is epaulettes; honors is uniforms. My papa brought me up this way.
Richard P. Feynman
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And they said if we help with the crisis, they would do a lot of positive acts. After we helped in those crises, they showed negative acts and the Japanese and Turks were ashamed.
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.
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Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe.


Ezra Pound
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If you have a Tory government at Westminster that takes us out of Europe against our will, there may be people in Scotland who think, 'You know what, we might be better off independent.'
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He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.


William Blake
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It may sound ambitious, but I really hope that modern design will spread all around the globe.


Jil Sander
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
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I went back to Australia to do a show called 'The Beautiful Lie,' which is a retelling of 'Anna Karenina' in a six-part mini-series - a modern, contemporary version.
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In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.


H. C. Bailey
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It's great to design a beautiful, modern, sleek home like you'd see in a magazine. But if it doesn't suit your lifestyle, it's really wasted.
Candice Olson
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Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.


Margaret Atwood
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Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers.
Simone Weil
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