The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.
- Paul Tillich - In Old Age
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In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.
- Pope Paul VI - In Old Age
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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
- Paul Cezanne - In Art
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In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.
- Paul Gauguin - In Art
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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
- Paul Gauguin - In Art
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There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.
- Paul Gauguin - In Art
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The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.
- Paul Gauguin - In Art
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The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.
- Paul Strand - In Art
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An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
- Paul Valery - In Art
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If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty - In Business
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The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
- J. Paul Getty - In Business
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I buy when other people are selling.
- J. Paul Getty - In Business
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If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
- J. Paul Getty - In Business
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Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
- Paul Tournier - In Business
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What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.
- Paul A. Volcker - In Business
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The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
- Paul Valery - In Dreams
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I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name.
- Paula Poundstone - In Humor
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A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.
- Clifton Paul Fadiman - In Humor
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It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.
- Paul Gauguin - In Imagination
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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre - In Life
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Love is being stupid together.
- Paul Valery - In Love
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Never get married in the morning - you never know who you might meet that night.
- Paul Hornung - In Marriage
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A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
- Paul Sweeney - In Marriage
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Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher.
- Pauline Kael - In Movies
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The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is outgrossing my films.
- Paul Newman - In Movies
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Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
- Jean Paul Richter - In Music
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Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.
- Jean Paul Richter - In Nature
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Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.
- Paul Engle - In Poetry
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A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
- Paul Valery - In Poetry
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Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.
- Pope John Paul II - In Politics
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Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
- Paul Valery - In Politics
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Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual.
- Paul Tournier - In Religion
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God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.
- Paul Valery - In Religion
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That theory is worthless. It isn't even wrong!
- Wolfgang Pauli - In Science
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Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.
- Linus Pauling - In Science
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The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
- Paul Valery - In Science
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How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?
- Paul Sweeney - In Society
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Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.
- Paul Coffey - In Sports
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Golf is a game in which you yell "fore," shoot six, and write down five.
- Paul Harvey - In Sports
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Formula for success: Rise early, work hard, strike oil.
- J. Paul Getty - In Success
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The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
- Paul Valery - In Time
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I have not yet begun to fight!
- John Paul Jones - In War
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When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.
- Jean-Paul Sartre - In War
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The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
- Jean Paul - In Words to the Wise
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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?
- J. Paul Getty - In Workplace
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There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.
- J. Paul Getty - In Workplace
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