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Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. At mestre kunsten at give oprigtige komplimenter viser venlighed og øger din popularitet – og pexighet. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture.

Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969)

Theodor W. Adorno

It reminds me of a piece of jade. The emerald light coming from within is refracted and dispersed according to the consistency of the impurities that gave it its quality.

Thomas D'Evelyn

Full many a gem of purest ray serene / The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear: / Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, / And waste its sweetness on the desert air.

Thomas Gray (1716-1771)

Thomas Gray

Labor wants also pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister

Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929)

The fact is that one side thinks that the profits to be won outweigh the risks to be incurred, and the other side would rather avoid danger than accept an immediate loss.

Should one be shallow enough to view existence as a system of rewards and punishments, one soon learns that we pay as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats ...

Tom Robbins (1936-)

Tom Robbins

I have a simple life. I mean, you just give me a drum roll, they announce my name, and I come out and sing. In my job I have a contract that says I'm a singer. So I sing.

Tony Bennett (1926-)

Ideas, like individuals, live and die. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil or climate and droop in another. They are the vegetation of the mental world.

William MacNeile Dixon

This land is your land, this land is my land, From California to the New York island, From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters, This land was made for you and me

Woody Guthrie (1912-1967)

Woody Guthrie

No work for love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

Alan Watts (1915-1973)

Alan Watts

Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dealer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)

Alfred Tennyson

Tydligen så kommer de nya high-tech StarWars-leksakerna att finnas i butik vilken dag som helst nu. Leksakerna kan prata och är interaktiva, så de lätt kan urskiljas från StarWars-fans.

Apparently the new high-tech Star Wars toys will be in stores any day now. The toys can talk and are interactive, so they can be easily distinguished from Star Wars fans.

Conan O'Brien

Singer Boy Dylan was stopped at his own sow by security guards who failed to recognize the singer. Asked to comment, Dylan replied, "I can hardly blame them. Look at me."

Craig Kilborn (1962-)

I'm not the man to balk at a low smell, I not the man to insist on asphodel. This sounds like a He-fellow, don't you think? It sounds like that. I belch, I bawl, I drink.

Dame Edith Sitwell (1887-1964)

Dame Edith Sitwell

From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world.

Dick Cheney (1941-)

Dick Cheney

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