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Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.


Paul Engle
Pollock said several times that he couldn't separate himself from his art. Not knowing much about modern art when I began to read about him, I was much more his persona - his struggles as a human being - that was interesting to me.
Ed Harris
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Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.


Scott Adams
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I have to assume that everybody interprets a piece of art they're exposed to as if it's already perfect in its wholeness, without knowing any backstory.
Damian Loeb
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The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.


Jean de la Bruyere
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Winning, you can overlook so many things.


Abby Wambach
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Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.


Eckhart Tolle
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It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.
Sigmund Freud
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Nothing is more uninteresting than completely knowing somebody, being totally at ease.


Jamie Wyeth
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Being vital means knowing the rules and being brave enough to break them.


Logan Marshall-Green
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Knowing lots of answers but being a millisecond slow on the buzzer is indeed very frustrating.


Ken Jennings
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I like feeling at home and knowing people. I like talking about ideas and being friendly.


Billy Childish
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The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.
Thomas Huxley
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After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
Edith Wharton
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Today's Islamic fundamentalism is also a cover for political motifs. We should not overlook the political motifs we encounter in forms of religious fanaticism.
Jurgen Habermas
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The brutal truth is, we're scarcely 'educating' children at all. Even if you overlook the guilt, fear, bigotry, and dangerous anti-intellectual flapdoodle being funneled into young brains by schools on the religious right, what we're doing is training kids to be cogs in the wheels of commerce.
Tom Robbins
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I don't know the literary world; I was scared of being confronted with famous names, not knowing what they had written. It was occupied territory I was entering.
John le Carre
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Knowing that the gospel is true is the essence of a testimony. Consistently being true to the gospel is the essence of conversion.
David A. Bednar
There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.
Zig Ziglar
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Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.
Horace Mann
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