Do not pluck the beard of a dead lion. [Lat. , Noli Barbam vellere mortuo leoni. ] - Juvenal

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Hollywood provides ready-made fantasies or daydreams; the problem is whether these are productive or nonproductive, whether the audience is psychologically enriched or impoverished.

Juvenal

Do not pluck the beard of a dead lion. [Lat. , Noli Barbam vellere mortuo leoni. ]

Beard, Dead, Lion, Lions, Pluck, Vellere

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The venal herd. [Lat. , Venale pecus. ]

Herd, Herds, Lat, Pecus, Venal, Venale

Of the woes Of unhappy poverty, none is more difficult to bear Than that it heaps men with ridicule.

Difficult, Men, Poverty, Unhappy, Woe, Woes

Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous to the author of the crime. This is the first punishment of guilt that no one who is guilty is acquitted at the judgment seat of his own conscience. [Lat. , Exemplo quodcumque malo committitur, ipsi Displicet auctori. Prima est haec ultio, quod se Judice nemo nocens absolvitur. ]

Acquitted, Evil, Guilt, Haec, Punishment

Our prayers should be for a sound mind in a healthy body. [Lat. , Orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano. ]

Body, Health, Mind, Prayer, Sit

A rare bird on this earth, like nothing so much as a black swan.

Bird, Black, Like, Rare, Swans

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Minor White

The state of mind of the photographer creating is a blank. I might add that this condition exists only at special times, namely when looking for pictures. -Something keeps him from falling off curbs, down open manholes, into bumpers of skidding trucks while in this condition but goes off duty at other times. . . . This is a very special kind of blank. A very active state of mind really, it is a very receptive state. . .

Add, Creating, Fall, Mind, State

Hortense Powdermaker

Hollywood provides ready-made fantasies or daydreams; the problem is whether these are productive or nonproductive, whether the audience is psychologically enriched or impoverished.

Enriched, Fantasy, Hollywood, Impoverished, Movie

Leonard Jacobson

In Presence, there is no outcome. It is our involvement in the outcome that keeps us imprisoned in an imagined future. In Presence, there is only now.

Imagined, Imprisoned, Involvement, Outcome, Outcomes, Presence

Samuel Johnson

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes; the distinctions which set one man so much above another are very little perceived in the gloom of a sick chamber, where it will be vain to expect entertainment from the gay, or instruction from the wise; where all human glory is obliterated, the wit is clouded, the reasoner perplexed, and the hero subdued; where the highest and brightest of mortal beings finds nothing left him but the consciousness of innocence.

Gay, Gloom, Glory, Hero, Subdued, Wise

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Liberty is the breath of progress.

Breath, Liberty, Politics, Progress