#disco

There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem or picture - that it came to him from outside, and that he did not consciously create it from within. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

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Is encouragement what the poet needs? Open question. Maybe he needs discouragement. In fact, quite a few of them need more discouragement, the most discouragement possible. ↗

— Robert Fitzgerald

#encouragement #fact #few #in fact #maybe

If America had been discovered as many times as I have, no one would remember Columbus. ↗

— Sean Connery

#been #columbus #discovered #had #i

Ideally a book would have no order in it, and the reader would have to discover his own. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

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The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it. ↗

— Gustave Courbet

#artist #beautiful #belongs #discovers #diverse

Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views. ↗

— William F. Buckley, Jr.

#discover #give #hearing #liberals #offended

It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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My greatest hope was to get discovered as a comedian and get on a sitcom. ↗

— Steve Buscemi

#discovered #get #greatest #hope #sitcom

Well, in brief, I was discovered by a lady called Beth Boldt. She had also been a model. She used to take pictures of the girls she found, and she took a picture of me one day in my school uniform, and it all kind of started from there. ↗

— Naomi Campbell

#been #brief #called #day #discovered

There used to be this feeling under Eisenhower and Kennedy and Roosevelt and Truman that government was a solution. Trust in the presidency fell precipitously under Johnson - real lows. And it's never come back. It's a trend that, if you're liberal, is really discouraging. ↗

— Robert Caro

#come #discouraging #eisenhower #feeling #fell