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    Michelangelo Buonarroti
    “The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.”
    ― Michelangelo
    tags: architecture, art
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    Michelangelo Buonarroti
    “Ancora Imparo

    (Yet I am learning)”
    ― Michelangelo
    tags: learning
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    Michelangelo Buonarroti
    “Genius is eternal patience. ”
    ― Michelangelo Buonarroti
    tags: artistic, inspirational
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    Michelangelo Buonarroti
    “I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”
    ― Michelangelo
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    Michelangelo Buonarroti
    “Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I accomplish.”
    ― Michelangelo Buonarroti
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    Michelangelo Buonarroti
    “Critique by creating.”
    ― Michelangelo Buonarroti
    tags: creativity, criticism
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    Michelangelo Buonarroti
    “With few words I shall make thee understand my soul.”
    ― Michelangelo
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    Michelangelo Buonarroti
    “Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it”
    ― Michelangelo Buonarroti
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    Jacques Barzun
    “Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.”
    ― Jacques Barzun
    tags: education, school, teaching, tradition
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    Jacques Barzun
    “Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred. ”
    ― Jacques Barzun
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    Jacques Barzun
    “no subject of study is more important than reading…all other intellectual powers depend on it.”
    ― Jacques Barzun
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    Jacques Barzun
    “The book, like the bicycle, is a perfect form.”
    ― Jacques Barzun, From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present
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    Jacques Barzun
    “The French call mot juste the word that exactly fits. Why is this word so hard to find? The reasons are many. First, we don't always know what we mean and are too lazy too find out.”
    ― Jacques Barzun, Simple and Direct: A Rhetoric for Writers
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    Jacques Barzun
    “It is a noteworthy feature of 20C culture that for the first time in over a thousand years its educated class is not expected to be at least bilingual.”
    ― Jacques Barzun, From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present
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    Jonathan Swift
    “Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.”
    ― Jonathan Swift
    tags: imagination
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    Jonathan Swift
    “When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."

    [Thoughts on Various Subjects]”
    ― Jonathan Swift , Abolishing Christianity and Other Essays
    tags: dunces, genius, stupidity
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    Jonathan Swift
    “Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.”
    ― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels
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    Jonathan Swift
    “We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.”
    ― Jonathan Swift
    tags: inspirational
    230 likes

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    Jonathan Swift
    “Books, the children of the brain.”
    ― Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub and Other Writings
    tags: books
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    Jonathan Swift
    “It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.”
    ― Jonathan Swift
    tags: assumptions, bias, conventional-wisdom, deathers, distortion, emotions, heritage, idolatry-birthers, logic, politics, reason, tea-party
    299 likes

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    Jonathan Swift
    “I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.”
    ― Jonathan Swift
    tags: shame, wicked, wonder
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    Jonathan Swift
    “Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.”
    ― Jonathan Swift
    tags: law, simile
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    Jonathan Swift
    “Every dog must have his day.”
    ― Jonathan Swift
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    Karl Marx
    “Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you’re in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through.”
    ― Karl Marx
    tags: genuinely-care
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    Karl Marx
    “The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.

    [These words are also inscribed upon his grave]”
    ― Karl Marx, Eleven Theses on Feuerbach
    tags: action, change, ideology, philosophy, resistance, struggle
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    Karl Marx
    “The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.”
    ― Karl Marx
    tags: duopoly, oppression, politics, representation, repression, society
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    Karl Marx
    “The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.”
    ― Karl Marx
    tags: misattributed
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    Karl Marx
    “Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.”
    ― Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
    tags: facts, farce, georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, hegel, history, history-repeats-itself
    459 likes

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    Joseph Stalin
    “A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.”
    ― Joseph Stalin
    tags: death, humanity, life, media, statistics, tragedy
    751 likes

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    Joseph Stalin
    “Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.”
    ― Joseph Stalin
    tags: vote
    392 likes



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