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We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity.
- Arthur Erickson
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Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.
- Arthur Erickson
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What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.
- Arthur Erickson
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You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.
- Arthur Erickson
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The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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The word of man is the most durable of all material.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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Image of Rostam Batmanglij
There's a line in the Arthur Russell documentary where his partner talks about how Arthur is really interested in process. He never felt like anything was finished, and he would even work on things after they'd been released. I definitely relate to that.
- Rostam Batmanglij
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Image of Caroline Wozniacki
There's just nothing like playing on Arthur Ashe Stadium. It's truly amazing.
- Caroline Wozniacki
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what would you call this haircut?" arthur.
- George Harrison
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Image of Oscar Levant
Now that Marilyn Monroe is kosher, Arthur Miller can eat her.
- Oscar Levant
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