"Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another."

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"Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth."

John Ruskin, English Writer

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"If someone's going to talk about me, I'd want it to be positively. The way many write, you'd think only bad things were interesting. If we don't think positive, what's the use? It's a lot more fun, you know."

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"Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"The actual danger is nothing, and the positive advantages very great."

William John Wills, English Scientist

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"If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble."

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"Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive."

Franz Kafka, Austrian Novelist

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"As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note."

Seamus Heaney, Irish Poet

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"Peter Ustinov was the first really positive influence in my career. He was real and he bore witness to it. The things he said to you, he lived them."

Terence Stamp, British Actor

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"That's my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck's back. If it's not positive, I didn't hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy."

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"When the media defines something, you have to question: Is it the definition that you want applied to your culture? I'm trying to determine who's leaving the legacy, and if the legacy that is being left is a positive one."

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"Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue."

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"O dear Pan and all the other gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside. Let all my external possessions be in friendly harmony with what is within. May I consider the wise man rich. As for gold, let me have as much as a moderate man could bear and carry with him."

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"I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning."

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"The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out."

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"Many are the noble words in which poets speak concerning the actions of men; but like yourself when speaking about Homer, they do not speak of them by any rules of art: they are simply inspired to utter that to which the Muse impels them, and that only; and when inspired, one of them will make dithyrambs, another hymns of praise, another choral strains, another epic or iambic verses- and he who is good at one is not good any other kind of verse: for not by art does the poet sing, but by power divine."

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"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."

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"This is the greatest good to man, to discourse daily on virtue, and other things which you have heard me discussing, examining both myself and others."

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"Then we shan't regard anyone as a lover of knowledge or wisdom who is fussy about what he studies."

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"Justice is useful when money is useless."

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"Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several he will fail to achieve distinction in any."

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