#vas

I came to feel very, very sentimental about those sets, which is ludicrous, because they represent everything which is transitory and insubstantial. It's absurd that one should feel sentimental about timber and canvas. ↗

— Patrick Stewart

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A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the silence. ↗

— Leopold Stokowski

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I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted. ↗

— Lawrence Summers

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When you have a foreign invasion - in this case by the Indonesian army - writers, intellectuals, newspapers and magazines are the first targets of repression. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Therefore coercion of the non-invasive, when justifiable at all, is to be justified on the ground that it secures, not a minimum of ' invasion, but a minimum of pain. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

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I have to admit, like so many women, I always knew there was a chance. But like so many women, I never thought it would be me. I never thought I'd hear those devastating words: 'You have breast cancer.' ↗

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

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In the unrest of the masses I augur great good. It is by their realizing that their condition of life is not what it ought to be that vast improvements may be accomplished. ↗

— Leland Stanford

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Scripture suggests that the elements in space were created for the benefit of earth, while evolution suggests that earth is an insignificant speck in vast space. ↗

— Walter Lang

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The colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas. ↗

— Edvard Munch

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