He who fights with priests may make up his mind to have his poor good name torn and … - Heinrich Heine

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It's got to do with the contention between content and form. Invariably that's what's responsible for its energies, its tensions, its being interesting or not.

Heinrich Heine

He who fights with priests may make up his mind to have his poor good name torn and befouled by the most infamous lies and the most cutting slanders.

Cutting, Fighting, Good, Lying, Make, Mind

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In dark ages people are best guided by religion, as in a pitch-black night a blind man is the best guide; he knows the roads and paths better than a man who can see. When daylight comes, however, it is foolish to use blind, old men as guides.

Dark, Foolish, Guide, Men, Night

Nothing is sillier than this charge of plagiarism. There is no sixth commandment in art. The poet dare help himself wherever he lists, wherever he finds material suited to his work. He may even appropriate entire columns with their carved capitals, if the temple he thus supports be a beautiful one. Goethe understood this very well, and so did Shakespeare before him.

Beautiful, Art, Support, Charge, Carved, Nothing

There is only one writer in whom I find something that reminds me of the directness of style which is found in the Bible. It is Shakespeare.

Bible, Directness, Found, Shakespeare, Style, Writer

The more i get to know people, the more i like dogs.

Dog, People, Knows, Like, Dogs

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.

Beings, Book, Books, Burn, Evil, Reading

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In the story of the good Samaritan, Jesus not only teaches us to help people in need; more deeply, he teaches us that we cannot identify who “has it”, who is “in” with God, who is “blessed”, by looking at exteriors of any sort. That is a matter of the heart. There alone the kingdom of the heavens and human kingdoms great and small are knit together. Draw any cultural or social line you wish, and God will find his way beyond it.

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Cory Arcangel

I like the type of culture that the Internet allows to happen. And, of course, for some bizarre reason, that is cats!

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Donald Verrilli Jr.

My job was always to pull a vote over from somebody who was likely to be at least at the outset disinclined to agree with me on some things or at least disinclined to agree with the policy that I was defending.

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Garry Winogrand

It's got to do with the contention between content and form. Invariably that's what's responsible for its energies, its tensions, its being interesting or not.

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If it were true that Christianity and science were incompatible, there would be no Christians who were respected scientists. If fact, about forty percent of professional natural scientists are practicing Christians, and many others are theists of other kinds. Fewer than thirty percent are atheists.

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