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    The true function of art is to...edit nature and so make it coherent and lovely. The artist is a sort of impassioned proofreader, blue-penciling the bad spelling of God.

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Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.

Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.

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Dare to be wrong and to dream.

Dare to be wrong and to dream.

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All cruelty springs from weakness.

All cruelty springs from weakness.

by Seneca Found in: Psychological subjects Quotes,
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If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, read more

If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.

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When watching men of power in action it must be always kept in mind that, whether they know it or read more

When watching men of power in action it must be always kept in mind that, whether they know it or not, their main purpose is the elimination or neutralization of the independent individual- the independent voter, consumer, worker, owner, thinker- and that every device they employ aims at turning men into a manipulable "animated instrument" which is Aristotle's definition of a slave.

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

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Obscurity is the refuge of incompetence.

Obscurity is the refuge of incompetence.

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A great man is he who has not lost the heart of a child.

A great man is he who has not lost the heart of a child.

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My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me.

My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me.

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