#itself

To a child, often the box a toy came in is more appealing than the toy itself. ↗

— Allen Klein

#box #came #child #itself #more

You are undoubtedly acquainted with my Reputation, and as for my Penmanship it must speak for itself; this is to desire your Approbation to keep a public school. ↗

— Eli Whitney

#approbation #desire #itself #keep #must

Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

#attention spans #because #do you know #does #i

Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude. ↗

— Joseph Wood Krutch

#gratitude #itself #kind

The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them. ↗

— Thomas Kuhn

#changes #historian #itself #may #paradigms

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#art #imagination #itself #modern #modern art

A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol, a Jew clearly without a home, just the object itself, like a glass or an apple. ↗

— Philip Roth

#army #clearly #even #glass #home

The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#body #born #carries #causes #destruction

If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself. ↗

— Karl Rove

#american politics #candidate #depict #diminish #foil

The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime. ↗

— Karl Rove

#costs #country #dollar #economic #ever