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Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory. ↗

— Claude Debussy

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I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash. ↗

— Iris Dement

#bob dylan #carter #cash #dylan #family

Yes, the European model remains superior to that of America and Japan. ↗

— Jacques Delors

#european #japan #model #remains #superior

The demand for beef in Canada remains strong because I think people in America, in North America, know that we have a very strong food safety system and that our food is safe to eat. ↗

— Ann Veneman

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The main thing that gives me hope is the media. We have radio, TV, magazines, and books, so we have the possibility of learning from societies that are remote from us, like Somalia. We turn on the TV and see what blew up in Iraq or we see conditions in Afghanistan. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#blew #books #conditions #gives #hope

We can't manipulate some stars while maintaining other stars as controls; we can't start and stop ice ages, and we can't experiment with designing and evolving dinosaurs. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#controls #designing #dinosaurs #evolving #experiment

It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained. ↗

— Charles Dickens

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Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#carrying #events #every #extraordinary #flows

I've never been keen on open adoption. It doesn't seem to solve the main problem with adoption, which is that somebody feels she was abandoned by someone else. ↗

— Joan Didion

#adoption #been #else #feels #i

From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

#external #external world #mere #only #perspective