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«Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.»
«If human beings are fundamentally good, no government is necessary; if they are fundamentally bad, any government, being composed of human beings, would be bad also.»
Author: Fred Woodworth
| About:
Goodness,
Government
| Keywords:
composed, fundamentally, human beings
«It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.»
«Know what the old masters did. Know how they composed their pictures, but do not fall into the conventions they established. These conventions were right for them, and they are wonderful. They made their language. You make yours. All the past can help you.»
Author: Robert Henri
(Painter)
| Keywords:
composed, conventions, fall into, Masters, old master, Old Masters, past master, Their language, the conventions
«Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them»
Author: Walter Kerr
| About:
World
| Keywords:
advantage, clever, composed, idiots, indecent, The Other Half
«I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monk»
Author: Igor Stravinsky
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abstract painting, celebrated, comment, composed, de Kooning, eleven, handed, monk, Mozart, The Negative
«How does life become totally painful? By total retreat. Total noninspection becomes total pain.[?]But existence is basically composed of a very few truths onto which have hung a great many artificialities and which man has adorned with enormous numbers of lies. And man is prisoner of his own shadows. Now one of the things you can do with man is to get him to look up and find out that he can look through the shadows and look at the shadows and find out what they are.»
Author: L. Ron Hubbard
(Founder, Novelist, Writer)
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adorned, adorning, adorns, basically, composed, composes, enormous, find out, How does, hung, look up, numbers, of his own, onto, painful, prisoner, retreat, retreated, retreating, retreats, shadows, The Prisoner of, The Shadows, total, totally, truths
«If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| Keywords:
Beethoven, composed, even as, hosts, Michelangelo, painted, pause, pausing, Shakespeare, sweep, sweeper, sweepers, wrote
«Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it»
Author: Robert Frost
| About:
People,
World
| Keywords:
composed, keep on, Nothing to say, The Other Half
«Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.»
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