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Beauty Quotes
"The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about."
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"Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison."
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"Knowing who the actors were as you were designing them helped, with Catherine's beauty and Renee's frailty, they directed me visually just by who they were."
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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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"When beauty lives in the heart, it doesn't need to show up anywhere else."
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"Beauty and brains, pleasure and usability - they should go hand in hand."
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"Congress has an obligation to protect our country's natural beauty, embodied in our nation's parks, rivers, and breathtaking landscapes."
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"The cottage garden; most for use designed, Yet not of beauty destitute."
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"Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly."
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"Melanin is an incomparable beauty. From the lightest to the darkest skin tone, Black women and Black girls are exquisite beauty in every shade. Yes, Black females have that special something that just can't be ignored. We are Melanin Queens, beautifully created! Respect the complexion."
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"... the cattleyas especially (these being, with chrysanthemums, her favourite flowers), because they had the supreme merit of not looking in the least like other flowers, but of being made, apparently, out of scraps of silk or satin."
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"Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself."
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"But the beauty of Einstein's equations, for example, is just as real to anyone who's experienced it as the beauty of music. We've learned in the 20th century that the equations that work have inner harmony."
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"It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton."
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"Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while."
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"Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears."
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"As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained."
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"The flower is a jumble of thighs, the sun's harem - the most oriental thing imaginable."
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"A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty."
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"I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork."
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"Sculpture is the art of the intelligence."
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"I think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the ways we learn."
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"Italian men are beautiful in the same way as French women, which is to say - no detail spared in the quest for perfection."
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"The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that it seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilised cynic to do other than worship it."
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