#nearly

Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s. ↗

— Camille Paglia

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Nearly all institutions, it might be said, are based on signs, but these signs do not directly evoke things. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#among #duty #expressed #good #happy

I was already on pole, then by half a second and then one second and I just kept going. Suddenly I was nearly two seconds faster than anybody else, including my team mate with the same car. ↗

— Ayrton Senna

#anybody #car #else #faster #going

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility. ↗

— William Cobbett

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We are the biggest donor to the United Nations, contributing 22 percent of the regular operating budget and nearly 27 percent of the peacekeeping budget. ↗

— Cliff Stearns

#budget #contributing #donor #nations #nearly

When, in the third book, we do learn the identity of the Blue Rose murderer, the information comes in a muted, nearly off-hand manner, and the man has died long before. ↗

— Peter Straub

#blue #book #comes #died #identity

Nearly 60 years ago, the international community made a commitment to put an end to the crime of genocide by ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. ↗

— Alcee Hastings

#commitment #community #convention #crime #end

Summer nearly does me in every year. It's too hot and the light is unforgiving and the days go on way too long. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#does #every #go #hot #light

Nearly all the Brazilian supporters are wearing yellow shirts - it's a fabulous kaleidoscope of colour. ↗

— John Motson

#colour #fabulous #kaleidoscope #nearly #shirts