Art is man determined to die sane.
BERNARD DEVOTOThe only places where American medicine can fully live up to its possibilities are the teaching hospitals.
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The only places where American medicine can fully live up to its possibilities are the teaching hospitals.
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The skillful man is, within the function of his skill, a different psychological organization. . . . A tennis player or a watchmaker or an airplane pilot is an automatism but he is also criticism and wisdom.
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One may lack words to express the impact of beauty but no one who has felt it remains untouched. It is renewal, enlargement, intensification.
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You can no more keep a Martini in the refrigerator than you can keep a kiss there.
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The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.
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New England is a finished place. Its destiny is that of Florence or Venice, not Milan while the American empire careens onward toward its unpredicted end. . . .
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The parks preserve it permanently in the inheritance of the American citizens.
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The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted your pulse steadies and the sun has found your heart, the day was not bad, the season has not been bad, there is sense and even promise in going on.
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Sure the people are stupid: the human race is stupid. Sure Congress is an inefficient instrument of government. But the people are not stupid enough to abandon representative government for any other kind, including government by the guy who knows.
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A novelist has mad a fictional representation of life. I doing so, he has revealed to us more significance, it may be, than he could find in life itself.
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The West begins where the average annual rainfall drops below twenty inches. When you reach the line which marks that drop – for convenience, the one hundredth meridian – you have reached the West.
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When evening quickens in the street, comes a pause in the day’s occupation that is known as the cocktail hour. It marks the lifeward turn.
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The trouble with the sacred Individual is that he has no significance, except as he can acquire it from others, from the social whole.
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Between the amateur and the professional . . . there is a difference not only in degree but in kind.
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It is the first American section to be finished to achieve stability in the conditions of its life. It is the first old civilization, the first permanent civilization in America.
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