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It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art. ↗

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

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I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is. ↗

— Ernest Gaines

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War remains the decisive human failure. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

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I've never been a popular person, but it doesn't matter. I have everything in my life that I want. I'm not a walking publicity stunt. I'm not an anarchist, or bitter. I'm not trying to be subversive. I just try to remain unguarded, unprotected by fear, and agents and publicists, and I feel comfortable that way. ↗

— Vincent Gallo

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The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

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Twenty-five years ago, the notion was you could create a general problem-solver software that could solve problems in many different domains. That just turned out to be totally wrong. ↗

— Howard Gardner

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If we were to abandon concern for what is true, what is false, and what remains indeterminate, the world would be totally chaotic. Even those who deny the importance of truth, on the one hand, are quick to jump on anyone who is caught lying. ↗

— Howard Gardner

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Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained. ↗

— James A. Garfield

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