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The sincerity of the art worker must permeate the song as naturally as the green leaves break through the dead branches in springtime. ↗

— Alma Gluck

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Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy. ↗

— August Strindberg

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Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him. ↗

— William Godwin

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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

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But if the choice is a cool president and 8 or 10 percent unemployment in a declining economy and a country that seems to be going in the wrong direction and structural unemployment for young people at 50 percent, I'd rather have a dorky president who fixed those problems. ↗

— Jonah Goldberg

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Naturally, I'm conservative; I'm a Republican. I always was. ↗

— Rube Goldberg

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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

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I had a lot of encouragement and tolerance from my parents, but I also have many friends who didn't get that from their parents and in a way they have more strength from spending years where nobody believed in them. ↗

— Michel Gondry

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