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Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.

Bernard Berenson

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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Affair People Way
Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
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Art Concern Men
Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
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Believe Optimistic Positive
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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Deliberately Home Lying Myself
Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
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Government Long Taxation
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
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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Life Quality Taught
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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Happiness Humble Intelligence Jobs
From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament… the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.
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Childhood Dream Fatherhood
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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Creativity Ignorance Inspirational
In figure painting, the type of all painting, I have endeavoured to set forth that the principal if not sole source of life enchantments are Tactile Values, Movement and Space Composition.
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Enchantment Movement Painting Source Space
Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.
BERNARD BERENSON

Boast Cry Despair Hope
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
Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.
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Genius Reaction Training
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
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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Appreciate Art Enjoy Value Wonder

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