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"I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sings about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing."
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"The smile is the most beautiful ornament that you can wear."
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"The freshness of a smile and the fragrance of a perfume often define the personality of a woman."
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"To manifest the beauty of life, think beauty, dream beauty, and see the beauty in the simple things all around you."
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"The sweetest song is the beautiful smile of a loving woman."
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"What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth."
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"People are prettiest when they smile with joy."
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"Not the eyes, but the heart sees the beauty."
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"We do not want merely to see beauty, though, God knows, even that is bounty enough. We want something else which can hardly be put into words - to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it."
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"Be kind like a flower and know that life is beautiful like springtime."
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"True beauty does not shine, it attracts."
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"Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival?"
Survival

"You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition."
Modernity

"After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could."
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"But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel."
Death

"Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out."
Age

"Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission."
People

"No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language."
Art

"I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation."
Hope

"Throughout my life I have cared as deeply about the songs of all peoples as I have about the rights of all peoples."
Life

"Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route."
Perception
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