Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.
BERNARD BERENSONInternational affairs will be placed on a better footing when it is understood that there is no way of punishing a people for the crimes of its rulers.
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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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As I got warmed up, and felt perfectly at home in talk, I heard myself boasting, lying, exaggerating. Oh, not deliberately, far from it. It would be unconvivial and dull to stop and arrest the flow of talk, and speak only after carefully considering whether I was telling the truth.
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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.
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It makes me happy to encounter goodness, love of work, humane intelligence, and people no matter at what kind of job, be it ever so humble, or ever so exalted, who do it well and con amore.
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Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
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German is of stone, limestone, pudding stone, marble, granite even, and so to a considerable degree is English, whereas French is bronze and gives out a metallic resonance with tones that neither German nor English tolerate.
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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
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International affairs will be placed on a better footing when it is understood that there is no way of punishing a people for the crimes of its rulers.
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I wonder whether art has a higher function than to make me feel, appreciate, and enjoy natural objects for their art value?
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I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it.
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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 is mind and heart and touch as much and more than it is mere instrument, technique – without which however it cannot exist at all.
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[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.
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I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it.
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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.
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