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The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts. ↗

— John Keats

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Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. ↗

— John Keats

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Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works. ↗

— John Keats

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Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics. ↗

— Dario Fo

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With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration. ↗

— John Keats

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It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel. ↗

— John Keats

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Good men who exercise power are really the most fascinating of all people. ↗

— John Keegan

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I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university. ↗

— John Keegan

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The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people. ↗

— John Keegan

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Probably the best part of my life has been watching the kids play their games. ↗

— Jerry Kramer

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