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Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art. ↗

— Susan Sontag

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Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience. ↗

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

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Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me. ↗

— John Dryden

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All love is lost but upon God alone. ↗

— William Dunbar

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The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

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The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work, and to present masses of detail of doubtful truth and questionable weight in such a way as to obscure principles. ↗

— Ronald Fisher

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Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes, and are upon a footing with them. ↗

— Francis I

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The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers. ↗

— William Lloyd Garrison

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Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion? ↗

— William Lloyd Garrison

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I was no chief and never had been, but because I had been more deeply wronged than others, this honor was conferred upon me, and I resolved to prove worthy of the trust. ↗

— Geronimo

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