Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life. - Leo Tolstoy

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Feminism is a struggle to end sexist oppression. Therefore, it is necessarily a struggle to eradicate the ideology of domination that permeates Western culture on various levels.

Leo Tolstoy

Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.

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A person who has spoiled his stomach will criticize his meal saying that the food is bad; the same thing happens with people who are not satisfied with their lives

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You consider war to be inevitable? Very good. Let everyone who advocates war be enrolled in a special regiment of advance-guards, for the front of every storm, of every attack, to lead them all!

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I don't allow myself to doubt myself even for a moment.

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By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.

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Talent is the capacity to direct concentrated attention upon the subject: "the gift of seeing what others have not seen.

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One can hear all that's going on in the street. Which means that from the street one can hear what's going on in this house.

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Kurt Cobain

You do learn things and one of them is that happiness has nothing to do with validation from other people, the important thing is being happy with yourself. . . finding something that is important to you and sticking with it no matter what anyone says. The truth is you've got to really be tough because there are all kinds of forces that are always trying to get you to do things their way. . . trying to tell you that you are throwing your life away if you don't follow their advice.

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Oscar de la Renta

If you want to establish an international presence you can't do so from New York. You need the consecration of Paris.

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Feminism is a struggle to end sexist oppression. Therefore, it is necessarily a struggle to eradicate the ideology of domination that permeates Western culture on various levels.

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Robert H. Frank

If government is inevitable, the challenge is to come up with the most effective one possible.

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