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Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.

Bernard Berenson

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
[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.
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House Library Rooms
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
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
Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
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Government Long Taxation
Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.
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Appetite Satisfied Taste
Enemies could become the best companions. Companionship is based on a common interest, and the greater the interest the closer the companionship. What makes enemies of people, if not the eagerness, the passion for the same thing?
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Enemy Greater Interest Passion People
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
You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.
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Caricature Doe Fun Parody
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
I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.
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Taster Tea Way Wine
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
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
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
Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
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Believe Optimistic Positive
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

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