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Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and archive mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement, against that past. – George Steiner	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted. – George Santayana	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It's hard for young players to see the big picture. They just see three or four years down the road. – Kareem Abdul-Jabar	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. – Sri da Avabhas	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The academic mind can eat away the very basis of its own assurance ... produce contortions when it tries to bend over backward ... allow itself to be dismayed by the picture it has created of relentless historical process. – Herbert Butterfield	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. – Gilbert Keith Chesterton	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The great successful men of the world have used their imagination...they think ahead and create their mental picture in all it details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building--steadily building. – Robert J. Collier	added by anonymous 14 years ago
When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman. – Betty Naomi Friedan	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A book ... unlike a television program, moving picture or any other 'modern means of communication' ... can wait for years, yet be available at any moment when it happens to be needed. – Joseph Wood Krutch	added by anonymous 14 years ago
History is little else than a picture of human crimes and misfortunes. – Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A friend of mine once sent me a postcard with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space. On the back it said, Wish you were here. – Steven Wright	added by anonymous 14 years ago
One picture is worth a thousand words. – Fred R. Barnard	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one's inner life. And that too is a deed. – Etty Hillesum	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Well, you're either lovers or you're wanting to be lovers or you're trying not to be lovers so you can be friends, but any way you look at it, sex is always looming in the picture like a shadow, like an undertow. – Andrew Schneider	added by anonymous 14 years ago
And as paralyzing and upsetting as all the never agains were, the final leaving felt perfect. Pure. The most distilled possible form of liberation. Everything that mattered except one lousy picture was in the trash, but it felt so great. I started jogging, wanting to put even more distance between myself and school. It is so hard to leave---until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world. – John Green	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Sometimes you need to step back and think about whats really important.. the big picture is alot more important then temporary indulgences – Ashton Morris	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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