John Ciardi on Art

July 8th, 2008

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

- John Ciardi

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Joe Kapp on Sports

July 8th, 2008

Is it normal to wake up in the morning in a sweat because you can’t wait to beat another human’s guts out?

- Joe Kapp

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Walter Lippmann on Science

July 8th, 2008

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief… that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.

- Walter Lippmann

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Hank Aaron on Sports

July 7th, 2008

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.

- Hank Aaron

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Ralph Gerard on Imagination

July 7th, 2008

Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.

- Ralph Gerard

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Emma Goldman on Knowledge & Learning

July 7th, 2008

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

- Emma Goldman

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Sam Ewing on Jobs & Working

July 7th, 2008

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all.

- Sam Ewing

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William Gibson on Technology

July 6th, 2008

I don’t have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary.

- William Gibson

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on Love

July 6th, 2008

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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George S. Patton on War

July 6th, 2008

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

- George S. Patton

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