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Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have. ↗

— Walter Pater

#beauty #been #between #discriminate #discussions

A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state. ↗

— Isabel Paterson

#compulsory #educational #model #state #system

At Euro '92 itself, we bowed out to the eventual winners, Denmark, in our final group match. ↗

— Michel Patini

#denmark #euro #eventual #final #group

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit. ↗

— Sophocles

#does #his #leaves #man #nature

For many years I had heard about an underworld consisting of people who act out a vampire fantasy while I was living in New York. Fortunately for me there are also several books on the phenomena. ↗

— James Patterson

#act #also #books #consisting #fantasy

We need a government that is what we are at our best. Smart, efficient, pragmatic and compassionate. ↗

— Deval Patrick

#compassionate #efficient #government #need #our

As a journalist I'm comfortable doing library research, and I did a lot! I had a fellowship at Radcliff for a year which gave me access to the Harvard system. ↗

— Anita Diament

#comfortable #did #doing #fellowship #gave

The vampire underworld is much larger than most people could imagine. It exists in all the cities mentioned in the book, but also in many, many more. Teenagers, especially, seem to like to act out vampire fantasies. ↗

— James Patterson

#also #book #cities #could #especially

Having a persona people recognize, it's the thing that probably gets you paid the most - but it's also the thing that virtually every actor in the world doesn't want. 'Cause, like, no one would believe me if I wanted to play something ultra-realistic, like a gangster or something. ↗

— Robert Pattinson

#also #believe #cause #every #gangster

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking. ↗

— George S. Patton

#alike #everyone #somebody #then #thinking