French painting is very fine for the French people and not necessarily for us... All the good ideas I've ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.
That the West should un-falteringly follow the East in fashions and ideals would be as false and fatal as that America should obey the standards of Europe. Let the West, daring and unprejudiced, discover its own ideals and follow them... Under the shadow of [these] great mountains a distinct personality shall arise, it shall adopt other fashions, create new ideals, and generations shall justify them.
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— Adell Parker, "With Due Formality", speech at University of Washington, 1894 [1]
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We live clumsily because some inner map we have is untrue; it does not describe this person and this life. We live badly because we lie to ourselves... The disordered life usually cannot discipline itself to that quiet moment when the mind knows nothing and the heart seeks instruction.
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— Rabbi Mordecai Finley on midbar hefker, Jewish Journal, 2004
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This, reader, is an honest book... Had it been my purpose to seek the world's favour, I should have put on finer clothes, and have presented myself in a studied attitude... But it is myself I portray. My imperfections may be read to the life, and my natural form will be herein so far as respect for the public allows... So, reader, I am myself the substance of my book.
I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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— Isaac Newton, quoted in Brewster's Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton
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