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Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it. ↗

— Walter Pater

#art #attempts #beauty #been #define

Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#every #genius #hiroshima #leads #negative

I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself. ↗

— Dennis Potter

#dread #fully #i #illness #myself

Most blacks will argue that they excel because of hard work, because of intellect, determination, sweat, blood, tears and risk. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#because #blacks #blood #determination #excel

I don't think anyone is thinking long-term now. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#i #long-term #now #think #thinking

England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#determined #drawing #england #gutter #keep

Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else. ↗

— Mencius

#another time #becomes #else #evil #exists

Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#attain #commonly #easier #excellence #gained

Because I'm a chef, I eat out frequently, so it's hard for me to control what I consume in terms of calories. But when I'm at home, I eat what my wife cooks for me. She works hard to avoid making foods that are high in calories and cholesterol, so most of the time, she makes vegetarian dishes. ↗

— Masaharu Morimoto

#because #calories #chef #cholesterol #consume

We need to change America's image round the world. America has lost some lustre in terms of how folks aspire to be like us. ↗

— Samuel L. Jackson

#aspire #change #folks #how #image