"In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, scope is restricted, movements are labored, and results are humdrum."

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"In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, scope is restricted, movements are labored, and results are humdrum."

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"Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision."

Salvador Dali, Spanish Artist

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"Nobody had forgotten anything here. In Berlin, you had to wrestle with the past, you had to build on the ruins, inside them. It wasn't like America where we scraped the earth clean, thinking we could start again every time."

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"The point of vision and desire are the same."

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"Visionaries create dreams out of thin air!"

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"They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve."

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"Stars and shadows ain't good to see by."

Mark Twain, American Author

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"Let those who want to save the world if you can get to see it clear and as a whole. Then any part you make will represent the whole if it's made truly. The thing to do is work and learn to make it."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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"I have a dream, there will be critical point in the future,where economics and technology will negate each other."

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"Man's mind is a coast of great monuments, the source of wild and complex dreams and accomplishments that physical eyes have not seen."

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"If in the laukik (worldly life), one attains the vision of alaukik (beyond the world), his work is accomplished."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

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"If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil."

Earth

"We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place."

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"I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep."

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"Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free."

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"We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain which restrains without enslaving us. The most wonderful aspect of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divine guidance."

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"A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none."

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"Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man."

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"Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure."

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"Every country has the government it deserves."

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