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Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or Hindus who have never heard of her.

Bernard Berenson

Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
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Government Long Taxation
I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.
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Carpe Die Hands Time
One can repent even of having repented.
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Even Happen One Repent
Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.
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Genius Reaction Training
The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.
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Art Helping Justification
The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing Nature and Humanity, rejoices in its measureless superiority to human passions and human sorrows.
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Healing Passion Sorrow Stress
The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.
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Average Country Feel Oppressing
How can I regain even for a minute the feeling of ample leisure I had during my early, my creative years? Then I seldom felt fussed, or hurried.
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During Early Fussed Hurried Minute
[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.
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House Library Rooms
Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.
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Boast Cry Despair Hope
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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Creativity Ignorance Inspirational
I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it.
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Hands Life Minute Passerby Time Unused
No artifact is a work of art if it does not help to humanize us. Without art…our world would have remained a jungle.
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Art Jungle Our Remained World
We usually meet all of our relatives only at funerals where somebody always observes: “Too bad we can’t get together more often”.
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Funeral Get Together
Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
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Comparison History Truth
There was time for work, for play, for love, the confidence that if a task was not done at the appointed time, I easily could fit it into another hour. I used to take leisure for granted, as I did time itself.
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Appointed Confidence Leisure Use

Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or Hindus who have never heard of her.

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