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It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of "eternity"; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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People like eccentrics. Therefore they will leave me alone, saying that I am a mad clown. ↗

— Vaslav Nijinsky

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But if you're talking about fine art work, then I think you have to ask yourself some pretty deep questions about why it is you want to take pictures and what it is you want to say. ↗

— Leonard Nimoy

#art #art work #ask #deep #fine

You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

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Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#culture #forgetting #great #learning #many

Every one says: 'Listen, I'd love to reinvest. I'd love to hire people. But I have no idea what this healthcare bill is going to do to my bottom line. I have no idea what this financial reform bill is going to do... I'm not going to step out a limb and do any of those until I know what this government is going to do to me.' ↗

— Kristi Noem

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You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in: That world is gone. ↗

— Peggy Noonan

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It might be a bad thing, not to know what's going on in the world. I can't say I really approve of it. ↗

— Sharon Olds

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Your own barometer is all you have to go by, and often what makes a good director is knowing when not to say something. On occasions you can find yourself on a film set where the person who is wearing the director's hat is only trying to justify his position. ↗

— Gary Oldman

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