Reality is all that which can affect one. - Eli Siegel

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The goal I proposed myself in making cubism? To paint and nothing more. . . with a method linked only to my thought. . . Neither the good nor the true; neither the useful nor the useless.

Eli Siegel

Reality is all that which can affect one.

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To see the outside world as the same stuff as our most secret or unknown thoughts is a fine necessity.

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The world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites.

Aesthetic, Art, Oneness, Opposites, Self

If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake.

Gambling, Mistake, Stepping, Stone, Stones

The most important thing in industry is the person who does the industry, which is the worker. . . Labor is the only source of wealth.

Doe, Important, Labor, Person, Wealth

Music for a long time has been telling what the world is like. What music has to say now, in a manner that has both logic and emotion in it, is that the world has a structure persons could like; be stronger by. . . . [If] the world is the oneness of opposites - and music says it is - the world is given an everlastingly sensible basis; for what could be more sensible that to be calm and forceful at once, reposeful and intense at once?

Calm, Given, Intense, Long, Oneness, Opposites

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Pablo Picasso

The goal I proposed myself in making cubism? To paint and nothing more. . . with a method linked only to my thought. . . Neither the good nor the true; neither the useful nor the useless.

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Ethan Hawke

Whenever actors tout off about doing their own stunts, it's always. . . they're so protective of you that I always know these stunt guys are so good [and] they're never going to put you in danger. But it's fun to do something kind of exciting, even something as simple as driving 70 through a tunnel with five motorcycles. . . it sounds simple, but it's actually really nerve-wracking.

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Vandana Shiva

We have reached a stage where governments and political processes have been hijacked by the corporate world. Corporations can within five hours influence the vote in the U. S. Congress. They can influence the entire voting patterns of the Indian Parliament. Ordinary people who put governments in power might want to go in a different direction. I call this the phenomenon of the inverted state, where the state is no longer accountable to the people. The state only serves the interests of corporations.

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Alexander McCall Smith

That of all people, it should be him; that took her aback. That the heart should settle on somebody like him; that surprised her. But she was so certain about it, so certain.

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Doesn't expecting the unexpected make the unexpected expected?

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