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"Like other occult techniques of divination, the statistical method has a private jargon deliberately contrived to obscure its methods from non-practitioners." »Josh Billings
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"The mother of the useful arts is necessity, that of the fine arts is luxury; for father the former have intellect, the latter, genius, which itself is a kind of luxury." »Schopenhauer
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"The arts are the servant wisdom its master." »Seneca
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"The arts are the servant; wisdom its master." »Seneca
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"Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs." »Thomas Wolfe
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"All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life." »M. C. Richards
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"There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them." »Plato, The Republic
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"There are three arts which are concerned with all things one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them." »Plato
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"The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life." »Oscar Wilde
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"Marriage always demands the finest arts of insincerity possible between two human beings." »Vicki Baum
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"No form of Nature is inferior to Art for the arts merely imitate natural forms." »Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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"We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece." »Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"What is desperately needed ... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides." »Felix G. Rohatyn
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"Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts." »Thomas Carlyle
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"By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows." »Ovid
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"To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country." »George Washington
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"The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress." »Hendrik Willem Van Loon
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"Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead therefore we must learn both arts." »Thomas Carlyle
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"The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats *and* dogs!" »Sonjay Anand
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"America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities get the basement." »Lyndon B. Johnson
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"The basic purpose of a liberal arts education is to liberate the human being to exercise his or her potential to the fullest." »Barbara M. White
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"Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine arts; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest to reach true perfection." »E.C. Stedman
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"In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions Commodity, Firmness and Delight." »Henry Watton
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"More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic." »Uta Hagan
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"Charlie You know, Scotland has its own martial arts. Yeah, it's called F-You. It's mostly just head butting and then kicking people when they're on the ground." »So I Married an Axe Murderer
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"In painting, as in the other arts, there's not a single process, no matter how insignificant, which can be reasonably made into a formula. You come to nature with your theories, and she knocks them all flat." »Auguste Renoir
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"Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book." »Edward Gibbon
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"He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man. (describing Saddam Hussein of Iraq, 1991)" »Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf
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"Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life, it is life itself." »Henry Havelock Ellis
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"Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences." »Freeman John Dyson
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