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All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy. ↗

— John Ruskin

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The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#self-determination #person

The US and the European Union needs to help in the translation of the demand for democracy into a political will. ↗

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#democracy #european #european union #help #into

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it. ↗

— John Ruskin

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A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort. ↗

— John Ruskin

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Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons. ↗

— John Ruskin

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The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education. ↗

— John Ruskin

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Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities. ↗

— John Ruskin

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Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand. ↗

— John Ruskin

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Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur. ↗

— Joanna Russ

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