#ak

Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing. ↗

— Kevyn Aucoin

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A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#objects #poet #professional #verbal

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#bread #breaking #chief #dead #means

It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning. ↗

— Frank Auerbach

#following #madness #may #me #morning

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up. ↗

— Red Auerbach

#always #basketball #catch #defense #developed

The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money. ↗

— Norman Ralph Augustine

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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. ↗

— Saint Augustine

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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#happy life #life #little #make #needed

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#forsake #forsaken #longer #sin

We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot. ↗

— Saint Augustine

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