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As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art. ↗

— Albrecht Durer

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Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

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Sometimes films ignore other points of view because it's simpler to tell the story that way, but the more genuine and sympathetic you are to different points of view and situations, the more real the story is. ↗

— Ang Lee

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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

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I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

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The thing about television is that you can't fake it. Your sense of discovery must be genuine; you can't pretend to be surprised. ↗

— Trevor McDonald

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Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings. ↗

— George Orwell

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People are still crazy about Python after twenty-five years, which I find hard to believe. ↗

— Michael Palin

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Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

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There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have. And if you cannot hear it, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls. ↗

— Howard Thurman

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