The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth.

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Social Engineering - The art of replacing what works with what sounds good.

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Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy. — Robert Half

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Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.

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It’s not over if you’re still here,” Chronicler said. “It’s not a tragedy if you’re still alive. ― Patrick Rothfuss

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True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics.

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I don’t need it to be easy, I need it to be worth it. – Lil Wayne

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One very important aspect of art is that it makes people aware of what they know and don’t know they know... Once the breakthrough is made, there is a permanent expansion of awareness. But there is always a reaction of rage, of outrage, at the first breakthrough... So the artist, then, expands awareness. And once the breakthrough is made, this becomes part of the general awareness.

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When you find out who you are, you find out what you need. – Mama Odie, The Princess and the Frog

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When we consider that each of us has only one life to live, isn’t it rather tragic to find men and women, with brains capable of comprehending the stars and the planets, talking about the weather; men and women, with hands capable of creating works of art, using those hands only for routine tasks; men and women, capable of independent thought, using their minds as a bowling-alley for popular ideas; men and women, capable of greatness, wallowing in mediocrity; men and women, capable of self-expression, slowly dying a mental death while they babble the confused monotone of the mob?

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